Nokia relicense Qt under LGPL

[bigtomrodney]

Nokia have relicensed Qt, the toolkit used to develop KDE and a host of other open source and commercial software.

Qt Everywhere: 4.5 To Be Relicensed As LGPL

This is great news as it will drive adoption of Qt in more commercial projects too, particularly in embedded devices I would imagine. I wonder if Mark Shuttleworth's comments in July will see some reality now as a result. Gnome on Qt? Well I for one would not complain about a single toolkit on my desktop

[Bemk]

I think I'll stick to GTK for now. My whole system is GTK, so I don't feel like changing. If I could I'd get rid of the graphical environment immediately, but because school demands some graphical actions, I have to keep it.

[Lakshmipathi]

I like QT but working with GTK+ for sometime.

I have some licencing issue, So far, i have released projects under GPL..
Both Application and Source codes is freely available on my site and sourceforge.net.

I waited for donations on my projects - but received nothing.
Now I'm planning to sell softwares just provide the binary not source code.
My projects are not derived from others.

Should i use LGPL or some others license?
I'm quite confused with licenses for commercial use.


More info:
Language used:C
Created Distro :Fedora
Compiler used : gcc
GUI:zenity and GTK+

Any thoughts ?

[bigtomrodney]

I'm not a licence expert Lakshmipathi, but it would seem to me if you are going to provide binaries only you probably won't want to use GPL, LGPL or even the BSD licence as all deal with source distribution and an emphasis on freedom. If you were to release it as a commercial only product you may find that there aren't as many 'shrink-wrapped' licences for you out there. That's the thing about the proprietary world, everything belongs to someone and they all want payment to share

[daark.child]

I had a feeling Nokia would do this. This effectively kills the whole GTK is more friendly to developers of proprietary software arguement.