Qt License Q: Joint software and hardware distribution

[derick]

Hi,

There is a part in the license v2.10 which says:
"... Licensee may not distribute, transfer ... of Redistributables, solely or as part of an Application, its source code, in binary/compiled, or in any other form if such action is a part of a joint software and hardware distribution, except as provided by a seperate distribution agreement with Trolltech"

What do they mean by "joint software and hardware distribution"? Ie. I may not sell my Qt product (statically or dynamically linked) (except when Trolltech says ok) when I want to do for example: Sell a Computer with my product pre-installed on it?

Could somebody please clarify?

Regards,
Derick Schoonbee

[wysota]

It means you can't distibute objects (like libraries) from Qt distribution (the one licenced to you).

[eivind]

Derick,

This clause mainly is about embedded consumer devices and has a number of exceptions, listed in clause 10 c) in the license agreement. Distributing a computer with your Qt-based application running on either KDE/GNOME, Windows or Mac OS X is for example expressly allowed. You can contact sales@trolltech.com if you need more info.

Kind regards,
Eivind Throndsen