From: "richard.j.dale@..." <richard.j.dale@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T22:59:54+09:00
Subject: Re: qtruby4 license

On Mar 3, 9:20 am, Christian Kerth <christian.ke...@dynamicmedia.at>
wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I want to use qtruby4 as binding to QT Framework for a commercial ruby
> application. I do have a QT commercial license. Qtruby4 is GPL.
>
> If i use the bindings, does that mean, i have to release the resulting
> peace of software under the terms of GPL?
>
> Are there other options?
Well my original plan was to dual license QtRuby, exactly like PyQt is
dual licensed, and offer both a GPL and a paid for commercial version.
But I haven't got the impression that there would be a critical mass
of commercial users yet to make that worth while.

Another problem is that it is difficult to release a Ruby program
without source code at the moment, although there have been
discussions on this forum in the past about how to do that.

The QtRuby code is copyrighted by a small number of people, and it
would certainly be possible to add another license type, such as
commercial, bsd or mit. If you really do think you need a commercial
license please email me to discuss. Note that it wouldn't be possible
to release QtRuby under an LGPL license though.

-- Richard