[Fsf-friends] Source GPL, Binary Demo

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

On Friday 03 Sep 2004 9:20 pm, H S Rai wrote:
> With 2.xx version, they say, source is under GPL and on their web-site
> demo versions are there  for Linux  as well as for  MS-windows, which
> terminate after every 10 minutes.
>
> Then what sort of GPL is it for source code?

It is a dual licence. Binaries are given under a different licence. Similar to 
QT. 

You can compile QT on windows - in fact, there is a project about compiling qt 
on windows (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/) which says in the 
project page:
"The port is completly based on the gpl´ed qt/x11 sources in the kde-cygwin 
cvs by commenting out all X11 functions and filling in the corresponding 
win32 functions. To avoid licensing problems we only accept contributions 
from people, who don't have access to the original qt-windows sources."

Similarly, you can go ahead and download the qcad sources and compile it for 
use without restrictions. It compiles cleanly - I have a source compiled 
installation for my personal experiments.

So from an users point of view, the value addition that you get for buying 
qcad, is of getting a packaged version of the software. From a larger point 
of view ofcourse, paying would keep the company alive, and would ensure that 
further dedicated development happens on the software.

- Sandip

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