Qt-jambi-interest Archive, September 2006
QTJambi redistribution question
Message 1 in thread
Hello,
i'm a newbie in this newsgroup, my question is simple, i have decided
to choose qtjambi for the development of my opensource projects. Today i
can redistribute the library with my GPL projects, or i must to wait the
final release of QTJambi?
Thanks in advance for yuor attention.
Best Regards.
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Message 2 in thread
On Monday 04 September 2006 00:12, Antonino Salvatore Cutri' wrote:
> Hello,
> i'm a newbie in this newsgroup, my question is simple, i have decided
> to choose qtjambi for the development of my opensource projects. Today i
> can redistribute the library with my GPL projects, or i must to wait the
> final release of QTJambi?
>
> Thanks in advance for yuor attention.
>
> Best Regards.
Hello!
The way I understand the current license for Qt Jambi you are not allowed to
redistribute it in any way. At least you would be on the safe side if you
don't distribute it until Trolltech offers a real open source license. I
won't.
And since Trolltech plans about 3 technology previews before the final release
and the second one was released roughly four weeks after the first my (rather
wild) guess is that we could be seeing a final release in about two months
which isn't a terribly long time, is it?
Regards,
Gregor
Message 3 in thread
Antonino Salvatore Cutri' wrote:
> Hello,
> i'm a newbie in this newsgroup, my question is simple, i have decided
> to choose qtjambi for the development of my opensource projects. Today i
> can redistribute the library with my GPL projects, or i must to wait the
> final release of QTJambi?
Hi Antonino,
You must wait for Trolltech to release Qt Jambi under an open source
license. In regards to GPL, please be aware of the the FSF does not
regard java source code as being GPL compatible by definition. See:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
This is part of the reason why companies, like IBM with SWT and Eclipse,
release their java source code under an non-GPL open source license.
When Sun release Java under GPL this will no longer be a problem.
Trolltechs side in this is still according to:
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/faq.2006-07-21.1262524505/
best regards,
Gunnar
