But if you are a commercial customer you are buying yourself out of the LGPL requirements....
-----Original Message----- From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:03 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Contributor agreement rundown I was under the impression that the LGPL is perfectly suitable for proprietary applications. I don't want to sound like a greedy egomaniac, but giving code I intend to be open source to be used under a proprietary license without me getting paid sounds like a rip-off. On 18/04/12 03:57, Scott Aron Bloom wrote: > Yes you did.. > > Otherwise, they would have to keep a separate branch, one for opensource one > for commercial. > > Anything you submit can be incorporated in both. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org > [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org] On > Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:55 PM > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: [Interest] Contributor agreement rundown > > I went to register for a Gerrit account. There I saw that I must agree to a > "contributor agreement". It's very legalese, so I'm not sure if it means > what I think it means: Nokia can transform open source code I contribute into > non-open code? > > "Licensor hereby grants, in exchange for good and valuable consideration, the > receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, to Nokia a > sublicensable, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free > and fully paid-up copyright and trade secret license to reproduce, adapt, > translate, modify, and prepare derivative works of, publicly display, > publicly perform, sublicense, make available and distribute Licensor > Contribution(s) and any derivative works thereof under license terms of > Nokia’s choosing including any Open Source Software license." > > The beef is the phrase "under license terms of Nokia’s choosing", which can > be an open license, but is not required to. > > Did I understand that correctly? > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
