I think the licensing situation is very clear. There are two licensing arrangements.
The free license is standard GPL3/LGPL3. There is a commercial license for proprietary, closed source work. That license has to be purchased and there are flavors of it, such as Indie Mobile, Professional, Enterprise, Device Creation, Cloud Services, etc. These do not qualify as open-source licenses. Here's the fee structure along with the license flavors: <http://www.qt.io/download/>. - Dennis PS: I thought there was a LGPL case where you could run QT as a DLL underneath an application, but I don't see how that can work with an ASF Project for a number of reasons. I also don't see anything about that featured in the current materials (although Wikipedia points to the Digia QT LGPL Exception, which is at the bottom of this page: <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/lgpl.html#digia-qt-lgpl-exception-version-1-1>. Some of the gyrations may be related to how QT was spun into and out of Nokia. According to my email archives, I apparently stopped paying attention to it at the end of 2011. I may also may be thinking of a different project with regard to using a pre-built DLL and LIB. -----Original Message----- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 15:46 To: OOo Apache Subject: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL Something I started thinking about and ta da...it's been proposed before -- http://markmail.org/message/gjvwudqnzejlzynz In my mind, we could use some assistance in the maintenance of the toolkit for our UI instead of continuing to do it ourselves. This said, I know next to nothing about QT and from what I've seen, the licensing is pretty complicated and might not work for the ASF -- http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/licensing.html#licenses-used-in-qt Main web site -- http://qt-project.org/ Thoughts? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out." -- Lou Reed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
