[Marble-devel] Commercial use ?

[M.Ozeau]

Thx a lot for all this !

Best regards !

2011/8/22 Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de>

> On Monday, 22. August 2011 09:42:37 M.Ozeau wrote:
> > Any help ?
> > 2011/8/5 M.Ozeau <m.ozeau at gmail.com>
> > > Does the MarbleWidget is usable in a commercial Qt Application  ?
>
> Yes, it's possible to use the MarbleWidget in a commercial application.
> There
> are some rules that you have to stick to: Marble is licensed under the
> LGPL,
> so the major points that you have to respect altogether are:
>
> 1.) if you make modifications to the Marble libary then you have to always
> release those changes to the Marble library under a free software license
> that
> is compatible with the LGPL (you can do this best by contributing patches
> to
> the Marble team).
>
> 2.) if your application is a proprietary closed source application then it
> needs to use MarbleWidget in a way so that the user can exchange the Marble
> library later on to a more recent version. You can easily fullfil this rule
> by
> linking dynamically against the Marble library. If you decide to link
> statically then you must provide the object files (we don't recommend
> this).
>
> 3.) for commercial development you can also create proprietary plugins that
> use the Marble plugin interface.
>
> I've also just recently answered a similar question on this mailing list:
>
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/marble-devel/2011-August/002311.html
>
> Hope this helps :-)
>
> Best Regards,
> Torsten
>
> PS: I'm not very familiar with the Windows OS, so I can't answer your
> question
> regarding that one. But I guess there are others who might do :-)
>
>
>
>
> > > --
> > > Cordialement Morgan Ozeau
>
>


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Cordialement Morgan Ozeau
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