Big development in the GUI realm

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Luke Skywalker" wrote:

> What I find weird, is that I always understood the GPL meaning that
> you must give back any contribution you made to the source code of the
> GPLed code, but not if you're just using either a binary distribution
> (eg. a DLL) or if you copy/pasted the code as is, with no changes on
> your own.
>
> If this is true, then the fact that Qt is now GPLed for Windows means
> that I should be able to use this widget set even in commercial apps
> since I'm not making any change to Qt, just using it.
>
> Am I totally off-target?

yes.  for details, see the "Combining work with code released under the
GPL" section on this page:

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

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