From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 20:50:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8304416A4BF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (user-0cdfelp.cable.mindspring.com [24.215.186.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3B5043FA3 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:50:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@online.fr) Received: (qmail 4270 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Sep 2003 03:37:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 23:37:27 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Message-ID: <20030903033727.GA3243@online.fr> References: <20030903004839.GA1625@online.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20030902211245.033c65d0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030902211245.033c65d0@localhost> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 03:50:13 -0000 Brett Glass said on Sep 2, 2003 at 21:25:16: > At 06:48 PM 9/2/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >Actually, it's an excellent model. If you want to use Qt in your own > >proprietary non-GPL code, you need to buy a licence from them (and lots > >of people are doing that) > > No, lots of people are NOT doing that. http://www.trolltech.com/company/customers.html?cid=10 http://www.trolltech.com/devices/index.html They're becoming pretty big on embedded platforms in particular (as are Opera, who also are their customers but for some reason aren't mentioned on the above pages). > and stop paying license fees. And the smarter ones will simply use the > no-cost version, on any terms that are necessary. The terms are that their own products be GPL'd; as you'd normally be the first to point out, most companies find that unacceptable. Rahul