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Re: [LUG] Nokia to LGPL Qt

 

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Tom Potts
<tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This may or may not be good news:
> I believe Trolltech release Qt under dual license  commercial and GPL.
> If they've accepted public contributions (and with KDE etc using Qt then I
> would find it hard to believe their wasn't any input) then surly they cant
> drop the licensing from GPL to LGPL?
> Tom te tom te tom

I would guess that for them to accept any patches the copyright of the
patches would have had to of been signed over under some kind of
contribution agreement. otherwise they would not have been able to
offer a commercial license anyway, or they would have not been able to
accept GPL contributions with out having a GPL and a commercial fork
of the library.

Robin

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