> From: André Somers <an...@familiesomers.nl> > To: interest@qt-project.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Interest] Digia to acquire Qt from Nokia > > Op 14-8-2012 16:19, Rui Maciel schreef: >> On 08/14/2012 03:08 PM, Atlant Schmidt wrote: >>> And I never said it did. I simply said that Nokia >>> destroyed all (+/-) of their own investment in >>> Trolltech, perhaps as a result of driving Qt into >>> (further into?) FOSS territory. >> How could anyone drive Qt into FOSS territory when it was already widely >> distributed under a FLOSS license? It has been so since the 1.* days. >> Moreover, it appears Qt has been released under the GPL for over a >> decade. How can a project be driven further into FLOSS territory after >> spending a decade of being released under the GPL? >> >> Again, you need to come up with another scapegoat. > Surely you can't deny that releasing under LGPL is something really > different from releasing under GPL? The difference is only one letter, > but the business implications differ quite a bit more...
Not really. As a commercial licensee (for work) and from what I gather on this and the dev lists; most of the commercial licensees are sticking with the commercial license because of the ambiguity with the LGPL and how to apply it; and the fact that while Nokia did do that, they have not provided any clarity to its use. So it makes it a little easier for some to use that might not have otherwise, but ultimately I don't think it really changes anything. Ben _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
