Ugly Huge BSD Monster

Brett Glass brett at lariat.org
Tue Sep 2 17:04:11 PDT 2003


At 11:41 AM 9/2/2003, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>One thing that Qt has going for it is that the Qt people offer cash
>money terms in addition to the GPL's cross-licensing terms, if you
>want to avoid GPL infection.

Actually, GPL/commercial dual licensing is a very raw deal for the
company that's attempting to sell the commercial licenses. They've
set themselves up to compete with a version of their own code that
has no commercial value... because end users can get it free of 
charge. It's not exactly a good idea to destroy the commercial value
of your product and then try to sell it.

--Brett



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