Any customer who buys their way out of the LGPL requirements of up streaming changes to Qt places a maintenance burden on themselves that they are fully entitled to and may well end up ruing. It is their baby, and the money they pay for said baby is one more copper coin keeping the organ monkey grinding. The "secret sauce" (diff) hording route contains enough pitfalls without the evangelical chorus stemming from RMS' pantaloons.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Scott Aron Bloom <scott.bl...@onshorecs.com> wrote: > 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 -- ------------------------------- °v° Donald Carr /(_)\ Vaguely Professional Penguin lover ^ ^ Cave canem, te necet lingendo Chasing my own tail; hate to see me leave, love to watch me go _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
