Kalle Vahlman wrote:
On 4/20/06, Lorn Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere) wrote:
[snip]
Just using plain Qtopia wouldn't have been an option, just as using
plain GTK+ without Hildon wasn't an option; we had to use a UI that
looks somewhat like Nokia's earlier products, without forking too
wildly. So the work effort would've been the same either way; the
difference being that Qtopia would've incurred the added penalties
of a licensing cost, C++, and of course the extra legal issues
surrounding the fact that Qtopia is GPL, not LGPL. The Nokia legal
Correction. Qtopia is dual licensed, commercial and GPL. GPL of course
has no licensing cost.
I remember seeing (but cannot confirm right now) a statement that some
modules were not allowed to be used on GPL when I compiled the
opensource version of Qtopia last night. So I guess to really have
that edge whith all the readily available thingies that were mentioned
one must pay the fee anyway?
The only missing 'modules' in pda commercial thats not in gpl version is
qtmail. or are you meaning the phone version?
Then there is always Opie which has more programs than you need, and is
also GPL and in some ways better than Qtopia.
Any company is going to have to pay some kind of fee, regardless whether
it's a licensing fee, or fee's of developers to update and maintain your
code base.
--
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Trolltech Qtopia Community Manager
Opie Core Developer
http://qtopia.net
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