[Ctk-developers] Qt licenses model

[Marco Viceconti]

I would like to open another discussion thread, parallel to the one we  
started on Qt core.  Currently Qt is available under two possible open  
source licenses: Qt GNU LGPL v. 2.1 and Qt GNU GPL v. 3.0.
http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing

If I understand correctly the code is the same, the access rules are  
the same, so I am not sure why one would choose GPL which is more  
restrictive than LGPL.  Can someone clarify this to me?

Secondly, having agreed that CTK will be BSD-like, can anyone confirm  
me that by using a LGPL library to develop CTK we shall not break the  
BSD-like license we plan to adopt?

Thanks

Marco



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