license issues with qt non-commercial

Georg Seidel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gephex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
First of all, there was an interesting discussion on /. about the new QT 
book and the license of the non-commercial version for windows:
http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/01/28/1749200.shtml?tid=126&tid=156&tid=185&tid=188&tid=192

This posting contains the exact non-commercial license:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=94616&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=126&tid=156&tid=185&tid=188&tid=192&mode=thread&cid=8120896

Seems to me that we can use the version of the book and distribute a 
binary windows release with the qt dll. But I'm not 100% sure,. §10, 
§11, and the definition of "Redistributables" in Appendix 1 seem to be 
the most relevant pieces.

What happens if someone *without* the non-commercial license wants to 
develop for gephex on windows? (Let's say he just works on parts of 
gephex that have nothing to do with the gui).
Will this violate the QT license? Do we have to split the gui into an 
extra component for that purpose?



Second, there seems to be a problem with our license in 
gephex--main--0.4. Following this information from trolltech:

   http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/download_noncomm.html

we would have to add an excetion to our license, something like

"As a special exception, <name of copyright holder> gives permission to
  link this program with Qt non-commercial edition, and distribute the
  resulting executable, without including the source code for the Qt
  non-commercial edition in the source distribution."


that's all,

georg
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.