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Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
by anon on Tuesday 04/Mar/2003, @09:18

Sure, no one can argue that Qt is excellent and that is the largest factor in it's success ... but I think the dual licensing/cross-platform nature and the knowledge that a real stable company is behind it also probably helps for commercial third-party licensees.

You can't use the GPL version to develop and then switch to a commercial license. That is restricted in the license AFAIK.

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Re: Little bit OT but a good reading.
by Jim Dabell on Monday 10/Mar/2003, @05:45

> You can't use the GPL version to develop and then switch to a commercial license. That is restricted in the license AFAIK.

Which license? The GPL only covers redistribution - so as long as it's kept within the organisation during development, they don't have to agree to any of the terms in it. And until the end of the development cycle, they don't need the commercial QT, so they don't have to agree to any of the terms in that until that point.

So unless the commercial license has something to the effect of "you may not link code to this version that was previously linked with the GPL version", I'd say somebody doing this would be in the clear.

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