Re: Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-29 Thread Ankur
hi i wish to unsubscribe from the group. Ankur On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 vivek khurana wrote : >Hi! > Thanks for the help on dual licencing, but now i have >a new doubt. Can i download the binaries of a GPL >project and use them for inhouse development?? > For example can i use the Qt designer shipped

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-28 Thread Abhi
From: "vivek khurana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks for the help on dual licencing, but now i have > a new doubt. Can i download the binaries of a GPL > project and use them for inhouse development?? Qoting from GPL text itself (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) : "Activities other than cop

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-28 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! Thanks for the help on dual licencing, but now i have a new doubt. Can i download the binaries of a GPL project and use them for inhouse development?? For example can i use the Qt designer shipped with Rh9.0 for inhouse development without paying an fees to Troltech bye vivek = Maling f

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-28 Thread abhi
> Hi! > Thanks for explaining the dual licencing. > > > > Since my company offers a product with a GPL/MySQL > > type dual licensing too, > > I can explain the rationale quite easily : > Kindly can you give me the name of the company and > the product. > > bye > vivek Sure. The company I work fo

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-28 Thread vivek khurana
Hi! Thanks for explaining the dual licencing. --- abhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since my company offers a product with a GPL/MySQL > type dual licensing too, > I can explain the rationale quite easily : Kindly can you give me the name of the company and the product. bye vivek = Maling

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-27 Thread abhi
> I think even MySQL comes with this type of license. It > is (to me) difficult to understand the thinking behind > this scheme. Since my company offers a product with a GPL/MySQL type dual licensing too, I can explain the rationale quite easily : If you are using our product to help others and n

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-27 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Prashant Verma wrote: Some rambling thoughts: If the intention is to promote open source, then it doens't make sense to make the code available under any license other than GPL. If the intent is to earn good karma through open sourcing/GPL and also make the product financially viable by selling to

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-27 Thread Prashant Verma
> It is under both - a dual licence. You can use it > even for commercial > products as long as the end product is open source > and under GPL. > However, if your company doesnt want to give the > source code to its > customers or otherwise wants to place the end > product under more > restrict

Re: [ilugd] Qt licencing problem???

2004-01-27 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
vivek khurana wrote: Hi! Everyone I have a confusion regarding licencing of Qt designer. A copy of Qt designer is shipped with Redhat 9.0. The About dialog this copy says it is under GPL, whereas the website of Trolltech(company which made Qt) says Qt is made available under comercial licence.