Does the ASU resolve the Qtopia license issue?

Bin Chen binary.chen at gmail.com
Sat May 24 14:24:37 CEST 2008


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Al Johnson
<openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 24 May 2008, Bin Chen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I know, Qtopia phone edition is not free if we get the full
>> functioned version! The commercial use should pay fee to Trolltech. Is
>> it OK for Openmoko?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Bin
>
> This was true, but last September Trolltech changed the licensing to include
> GPL v2.
>
> "To coincide with the porting of Qtopia to this open platform, Trolltech is
> also announcing that for the first time Qtopia Phone Edition--and all its
> components--will be completely available under both the open source GPL
> license (version 2) and a commercial development license. Until now some
> Qtopia components, like the telephony, DRM and the safe execution environment
> software stacks, were only available under the commercial development
> license. The full open source release of Qtopia Phone Edition is the latest
> example of Trolltech's longstanding commitment to its dual licensing model
> that combines the best of commercial and open source software development."
>
> http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-09-17.9260755578


So how about the telephony parts of QT in moko, we need to develop by
ourself or use commercial version instead?

Bin




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