Trolltech To Extend Dual Licensing To Qt For Win

[Peter Kümmel]

Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:03:24PM +0200, David Fraser wrote:
> 
>>Lorn Potter wrote:
>>
>>
>>>http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000192.html
>>>
>>>
>>>Trolltech is pleased to announce that we intend to make Qt 4 for Windows
>>>available under our successful dual licensing business model. This
>>>means that Open Source projects under the GNU GPL license will be able
>>>to target all major operating systems using Qt 4. We plan to release the
>>>Windows Open Source version of Qt at the same time as Qt 
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Just thinking ... any reason that the latest Qt 3 release couldn't be 
>>released as well?
> 
> 
> The faq on their site (although the news are new so it can't really be a
> faq ;-)) states that they want to encourage porting apps to qt4.
> 
> 
>>In that case the version produced here could be compared, it would be 
>>interesting and possibly beneficial...
> 
> 
> Beneficial for whom? They can't really include anthing "we" wrote better
> because the license is GPL and they sell their Qt under the "Commercial
> License" as well.
> 

If you are the author of the interesting code you could make them a present.
Peter