Greenphone is not GPL (was RE: At the risk of being flamed : State of software)

2007-08-24 Thread John Seghers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Licensing = As mentioned, Qtopia is avaliable under the GPL. Strictly speaking it is more open than GTK+ which is distributed under the LGPL (Lesser GPL). ... On the other hand, Qtopia is avaliable under the GPL (The full on GPL, not a GPL-like license, the

Re: Greenphone is not GPL (was RE: At the risk of being flamed : State of software)

2007-08-24 Thread Attila Csipa
On Friday 24 August 2007 21:29:15 John Seghers wrote: Be careful that you look at exactly what is covered under that GPL licensing. In order to gain access to the phone stack for the Greenphone (a must for my purposes) you have to pay them almost $5K for a commercial license. A valid point

RE: Greenphone is not GPL (was RE: At the risk of being flamed :State of software)

2007-08-24 Thread thomas.cooksey
Be careful that you look at exactly what is covered under that GPL licensing. In order to gain access to the phone stack for the Greenphone (a must for my purposes) you have to pay them almost $5K for a commercial license. I think Qtopia Core is what's covered under the GPL. Qtopia core is

Misleading title: Re: Greenphone is not GPL (was RE: At the risk of being flamed :State of software)

2007-08-24 Thread Attila Csipa
On Friday 24 August 2007 23:08:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: doesn't contain any actual applications. Qtopia Platform is a set of applications built on Qtopia Core, which are not all licenced under the GPL. Looking at the Trolltech website, there is Qtopia Open Source Edition however, which is a