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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