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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem by milliams on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:08AM (#8142819)
They sell a commercial version without any restrictions on usage. In order to accommodate this they do have a copyright license to Digia (https://codereview.qt-project.org/static/cla_individual.html).
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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem by jordigh on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:35AM (#8142991)
> They sell a commercial version without any restrictions on usage.

I understand I can't give it to my friends? That's would be a restriction that free software/open source doesn't have.

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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem by milliams on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:54AM (#8143116)
You can give it to your friends since all you have is a license to use the source-code under different conditions. It's the same source either way, just you have a special license. Your friends don't have that license and so presumably would be bound by the LGPL.
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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem by jordigh on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @12:06PM (#8143182)
Apparently not all of it, there are some non-free addons not available under a free license.
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