In case you havent noticed, Qt is dual licensed, it's not just GPL'd. So, anyone that wanted to could use the non GPL Qt license and KDE lgpl would be ok.
Perhaps you did not see my other post. For the umteenth time, Canopy had Trolltech shares due to Caldera Linux buying some much earlier. You remember Caldera, right? It was only AFTER Canopy & SCO bought Caldera that they became Trolltech share holders. If you should blame anyone, blame Caldera, not Trolltech! Trolltech had NOTHING to do with it!
You cannot legally force investors to sell your stock.
Roms based on openzaurus with an updated qtopia-2.1.1, that will sync with Linux, Mac OSX and Windows are available for the sl6000, as well as other Zaurus including the a300, from Trolltech's new Qtopia Community web site:
http://www.qtopia.net
Dont believe a FAQ. Distributing it to anyone, is distribution. Anyone in that company can then release your 'in-house' code to the public, and the corporation cannot prevent it. Look at it this way: is 'distributing' mp3 files around your corporation illegal? ya, I thought so... Same deal.
You cannot extend the GPL in that way. You cannot take away rights provided by the GPL. If you do, you loose your right to use the GPL. You cannot forbid your developers from releasing the source code.
Yes, you will need a commercial license, because any one of your employees could then release your code to the world. You cannot stop them from using their rights as in the GPL. The GPL is very specific about that.
There are a few ways to get your enhancement into Qt. You can license it under a BSD license, or you can turn over your copyright. Fixes and improvements go into both versions.
The commercial license actually forbids using it with code developed with the GPL version. If you do this, then you are violating the commercial license and you commercial license null and void, and you will have to release your code.
This is not the reason why Trolltech will dual license Qt for Windows. Trolltech has wanted to do this for some time now, but now is the right time to do it. Remember, Trolltech dual licensed Qt for Mac without a 'GPL Qt for Mac'.
Qt has one thing that commercial development houses need, that GTK will never have... some entity to go to for support when things don't go entirely correct.
Trolltech ownes all the copyright to it's code. So, it can license it in any way it wants. What Trolltech does is dual license. Nothing wrong with that. The commercial license does not apply to your GPL package at all, and vice versa.
The Siemens simpad can run linux, thanks to open simpad. I run Qtopia on mine, but it can also run Opie and X11 if you want that. This screen is an actual touchscreen, so I don't even need a stylus, I can use my finger.
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Trolltech does have income. There are many businesses that won't touch the GPL with a 10 foot pole.
There are also Qtopia Pda and Phone Editions.
In case you havent noticed, Qt is dual licensed, it's not just GPL'd. So, anyone that wanted to could use the non GPL Qt license and KDE lgpl would be ok.
One project that does use KDE code, is Opie.
I think Nokia and Apple has enough money to purchase Qt licenses if it wants too. Qt licenses are not expensive.
Perhaps you did not see my other post. For the umteenth time, Canopy had Trolltech shares due to Caldera Linux buying some much earlier. You remember Caldera, right?
It was only AFTER Canopy & SCO bought Caldera that they became Trolltech share holders.
If you should blame anyone, blame Caldera, not Trolltech!
Trolltech had NOTHING to do with it!
You cannot legally force investors to sell your stock.
Canopy had a very limited seat on Trolltech's board. He got there from historical reasons. and it wasnt Daryl on the board, it was Ralph Yarro of Canopy.1 38577
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Yes, Canopy no longer holds any Trolltech shares. Read more about it here. Scott Collins Blog
I don't mean to nitpick.. well, actually I do. You really mean that the interface can be UNtranslated from Japanese. Qtopia by default, is in English.
Roms based on openzaurus with an updated qtopia-2.1.1, that will sync with Linux, Mac OSX and Windows are available for the sl6000, as well as other Zaurus including the a300, from Trolltech's new Qtopia Community web site:
http://www.qtopia.net
Dont think so, we are still in the early seasons of Enterprise!
That is exactly why the LGPL is not about free software, but about closed source, proprietary software. Don't use it!
Dont believe a FAQ.
Distributing it to anyone, is distribution. Anyone in that company can then release your 'in-house' code to the public, and the corporation cannot prevent it.
Look at it this way: is 'distributing' mp3 files around your corporation illegal? ya, I thought so... Same deal.
Qt can use any C code you want to throw at it. You have to use a wrapper with GTK to use C++ code.
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Therefore, anything GTK can do, Qt can also do.
Remember, C++ is C with class
I would like to see real test observations that prove GTK signals are faster than Qt's. Anything else is speculation and heresay.
You cannot extend the GPL in that way. You cannot take away rights provided by the GPL. If you do, you loose your right to use the GPL. You cannot forbid your developers from releasing the source code.
Yes, you will need a commercial license, because any one of your employees could then release your code to the world. You cannot stop them from using their rights as in the GPL. The GPL is very specific about that.
There are a few ways to get your enhancement into Qt. You can license it under a BSD license, or you can turn over your copyright.
Fixes and improvements go into both versions.
The commercial license actually forbids using it with code developed with the GPL version. If you do this, then you are violating the commercial license and you commercial license null and void, and you will have to release your code.
This is not the reason why Trolltech will dual license Qt for Windows. Trolltech has wanted to do this for some time now, but now is the right time to do it.
Remember, Trolltech dual licensed Qt for Mac without a 'GPL Qt for Mac'.
Qt has one thing that commercial development houses need, that GTK will never have... some entity to go to for support when things don't go entirely correct.
Trolltech ownes all the copyright to it's code. So, it can license it in any way it wants. What Trolltech does is dual license. Nothing wrong with that. The commercial license does not apply to your GPL package at all, and vice versa.
Yes. Skype is a customer of Qt, so do not worry.
Qtopia Desktop runs on linux as well as windows and mac.
You can record mp3 and video with this archos device. and it has superior framerates for video than any zaurus or ipaq device that can run opie.
It should be compatible. At the most it would be a recompile.
The video playback on the archos device is heaps better than any Zaurus device. Not only that, you can record video and mp3 with it as well.
The Siemens simpad can run linux, thanks to open simpad. I run Qtopia on mine, but it can also run Opie and X11 if you want that. This screen is an actual touchscreen, so I don't even need a stylus, I can use my finger.