On: Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem

[milliams]

They sell a commercial version without any restrictions on usage. In order to accommodate this they do have a copyright license to Digia (https://codereview.qt-project.org/static/cla_individual.html).

[jordigh → milliams]

> They sell a commercial version without any restrictions on usage.

I understand I can't give it to my friends? That's would be a restriction that free software/open source doesn't have.

[milliams → jordigh]

You can give it to your friends since all you have is a license to use the source-code under different conditions. It's the same source either way, just you have a special license. Your friends don't have that license and so presumably would be bound by the LGPL.

[jordigh → milliams]

Apparently not all of it, there are some non-free addons not available under a free license.