[Gllug] GPL & Licence Fees

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Tue Nov 13 20:30:12 UTC 2007


Peter Childs wrote:
[snip]
> Right so whats the "commercial" licence that you can buy on top of 
> things like Qt exactly for then if its already free.....

It's to let you have freedoms other than those which the GPL would grant 
you.

E.g. you might want to be able to create a derivative product which you 
*don't* have to release under the GPL.  By paying extra for a commercial 
licence you could gain this ability.

HTH
John
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