may library's (like Qt even though i don't know about qt itself) have the LGPL which allow the use without having your software to be GPL. as long as you don't use Qt source in your product there isn't an issue
If your software is GPL it's GPL. what is possible is that if you are the owner of the software to set up a seperate branch with a different license. (even though if something like Qt forces you to gpl this doesn't work) even though you might want to ask someone with 'real legal' experiences. this is just my understanding victor Quoting "Shashank G. Khandelwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I've read through quite a bit of documentation, and before I start > making recommendations at work, I'd like to clarify a few things. > Hopefully there are people on this mailing list that are well versed > with the terms of the GNU GPL. > > I work for a research group at UT and we want to release all our > software under the GPL. > > 1. We use Qt in several of our programs. Since Qt is GPL'd, does this > require that we release our software under the GPL? > > 2. We would like users of our programs to cite some of our published > papers. It's somewhat acceptable to do this in the academic world. But > we'd like the software to be otherwise under the terms of the GPL. Am I > correct in assuming that what we want to do is modify the GPL and then > use the modified version? And if we do this, then do we conflict with > the fact that we use Qt which is GPL'd? > > A more UT related question: > > I know UT allows the release of software under the GPL. Is there any > paperwork associated with this? Who would I contact to talk to about > software licensing issues anyway? I know that the Office of > Technology Licensing handles this. But does anyone know a person I could > talk to who would be GPL savvy? > > Any help would be most useful, and much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Shashank. > > -- > Shashank G. Khandelwal > Research Engineering/Scientist Assistant > The Center for Computational Visualization > Institute for Computational and Engineering Sciences > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/shrew/ > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
