2008/12/31 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>:
> shall we avoid the personal comments? Anyway I may be a blind idiot - but I
> cannot find any wording anywhere on the website which says that QT itself is
> released under the GPL. All I can find is that the open source edition is
> released for developing GPL'ed software and that the same (open source
> edition) may be freely copied and distributed. I do *not* find any wording
> stating that the open source edition may be *modified* and distributed.

Well, when you say  a program is released under GPL, it means you have
all the freedoms GPL gives. What QT exception says is over and above
the freedoms we are granting you some more like your program need not
be GPL, but it could be any other FOSS license.

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