[Ctk-developers] Qt licenses model

[Will Schroeder]

We will not touch GPL. We use the LGPLd Qt in most applications we create,
it should not be a problem mixing it into our BSD-licensed components.
Will

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Marco Viceconti <viceconti at tecno.ior.it>wrote:

> 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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