Don't be rediculous [LWN.net]

Don't be rediculous

Posted Sep 30, 2004 6:21 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: Don't be rediculous by mark625
Parent article: Marketing OpenOffice.org

To develop an application with Qt under Windows you need a commercial
license. Once you have the application, you can distribute the application
together with the Qt library (I guess the dll only, or statically linked, but not the
lib-file) (at least that's what I remember from reading the licensing terms).
So you can develop free software with Qt under Windows and distribute your
application together with the Qt library, but you, the developer, have to buy a
license to do so.

Alex

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Don't be rediculous

Posted Sep 30, 2004 9:09 UTC (Thu) by rjw (guest, #10415) [Link]

But, it isn't free software if the user is unable to modify it - and modify it with no restrictions, including platform ones. If you make software depending on a non-free dependency, eg sun-only java features or Qt/Win32, it isn't really free.

Don't be rediculous

Posted Sep 30, 2004 22:26 UTC (Thu) by gallir (guest, #5735) [Link]

At the very right moment you distribute your program with some binary
code (or even source code) that cannot be freely modified and
re-distributed it has lost its freedom, so it's not free software
anylonger.