Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:13:31 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: shankar <shankar@dhanalakshmi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Software Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608261013g5c170246u350f28cebc424b84@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c6c8e1$8435e840$a6b0113d@abc1> References: <000501c6c8e1$8435e840$a6b0113d@abc1>
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On 8/26/06, shankar <shankar@dhanalakshmi.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I quote you from your page: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html > "Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also > encouraged to contact us. " > > I am a software writer, my website is http://www.shankar-software.org > I want to port my business software to other operating systems. Linux > seemed > the obvious first choice. After studying it for the past one month I am > completely > vexed by the gnu licenses covering their glibc libraries. It seems that if > I want > to port my software to linux, I have to write my own libc libraries (which > is a highly > time consuming effort) or not-object to giving my software under terms that > almost > strips me of all rights. Use QT: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt If you buy a commercial license from trolltech you can do whatever you want with your software, plus QT runs on every popular OS; Qt/Windows, Qt/X11, and Qt/Mac. The KDE project uses QT. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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