Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I just read licenses. I can tell you this right up front: You can't use "Qt" in the name. It's trademarked, which means you need permission to use it as part of the name; the text of the LGPL makes this clear.
If you read the LGPL (which Creator is distributed under), you will also find that yes, you can distribute your modified version under the LGPL or under the GPL; you can't use any license besides those. Generally I've found that Qt Sales is the appropriate department to direct these kinds of questions to and they'll forward them on to Legal, but I think that you can get all of your answers if you just read the text of the license. /s/ Adam On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Ilyes Gouta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >> For the legal aspect you should ask a lawyer. > > I can't afford one, even have access to. > > However, I'd *really* like to have the opinion of Nokia's employees > and QtCreator's developers about these items: > > 1. Is it - at all possible - to distribute this reduced form of Qt > Creator? In this case, exclusively in an open source form. > 2. If yes, do I have to rename it? Any suggestions are welcome :) I'd > need to do so in order to insure a proper installation on the user's > machine (so that files from different packages don't get overwritten). > 3. Is it possible to get an official confirmation from a Nokia > representative? Is there any procedure? > > Thanks! > > -Ilyes > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Andre Poenitz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I finally found some time and implemented that idea. Code lives on >>> http://qt.gitorious.org/~ilyesgouta/qt-creator/qt-editor >>> >>> So far, the changes actually are disabling some portions in the build >>> system (all the non needed plugins and supporting code) and modifying >>> CppTools to not depend on ProjectExplorer and SearchSymbol, etc. >>> >>> To Qt Creator developers: is it OK to name this editor qt-editor? >> >> For the legal aspect you should ask a lawyer. >> >> Andre' >> _______________________________________________ >> Qt-creator mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >> > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator > _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
