Re: on the Nokia announcement

On Saturday, 19 de February de 2011 02:57:20 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> >> By the way, here's a useful link to cite:
> >> http://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
> > 
> > Yep :-)  However, it's best not to put too much emphasis on that. The
> > KDE Free Qt agreement is really our 'nuclear option'. If all else was
> > to fail and the owners of the Qt copyrights walked away from the
> > project amicably or failed to continue development then it is the means
> > for KDE and the rest of the Qt community to make sure that Qt does not
> > die.
> 
> May I remember the audience the Free Qt Foundation - Nokia agreement
> only covers Qt/X11 and explicitly excludes Qt/Windows, Qt/Mac, etc?

No, it doesn't explicitly exclude anything. It explicitly includes only the Qt 
for X11 release. That's not the same thing as explicitly excluding.

Besides, what gain do you want to have from a BSD-licensed Qt that you don't 
from an LGPL-licensed one?

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