2026-11-11 04:14 UTC
There have been cases (see Nexuiz) that the copyright holder of a GPL project has accepted money from a company to allow them to use it.
Isn’t this Qt’s model as well? Many projects take this approach. GPL for everyone or pay to use it without copylefting your code base.
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@Ferk@lemmy.ml 2026-11-11 15:10
Most of Qt is licensed under the LGPLv3, not the GPLv3. This makes it possible for even proprietary software to include those libraries without needing to make the whole thing copyleft. I was referring rather to situations in which a company wants to make modifications to the software and not share the changes.