On 2006-08-06, Vincent Rivière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, I write a wonderful library from scratch (only my own sources). > It may be useful to other people, but I don't want it to be used in > closed-source commercial projects, so I release it under the terms of the > GPL. > But because I am the copyright holder of the library, I (and only I) can > write a software statically linked to the library and release it as > closed-source.
That's exactly what Trolltech is doing with its Qt library. You can get the library under the terms of the GPL, or for a fee you can get the library under a closed source license. It's up to you as customer to decide which one you want, but in either case you have to abide by the license terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_license#Use_in_free_software Merijn -- Remove +nospam to reply _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
