[gpgme] Windows DLL: 1.0.2 vs. 0.3.16

[Mark Riordan]

Hello.  I have some questions about using GPGME in our
commercial Windows application.  I understand that recent versions
of GPGME are released under the LGPL and hence would be allowed
in a commercial app--but I have some questions anyway:

1.  A few messages from October 2004 imply that the Windows version
of GPGME cannot be commercially used because it uses the Qt library.
I quote:

"Unfortunately, we cannot use gpgme under Windows because Qt is non-GPL over
there.  This is why I opted to make my own code (this, and also because
gpgme
was not really supported on Windows anyway, but this may have changed). "
http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/psi-devel-affinix.com/2004-October/000723.html

"Psi cannot use gpgme on Windows due to legal reasons"
http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/psi-devel-affinix.com/2004-October/000809.html

Is this still true (or was it ever true)?

2.  It appears that GPGME 1.0.2 is not available as a Windows DLL.
However, an older version, 0.3.16, is.  See:
http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/win32/

The older version was released under the GPL, not the LGPL.
Does the recent change in license terms from GPL to LGPL
retroactively apply to this older version?  I saw this note
from July 2003:

"We wrote GPGME from scratch;
for LGPLing it we might need to replace some very small parts taken
from other GNU software."
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnupg-devel&m=105880397529494&w=2

implying that the older version might not be available under the LGPL.

By the way, we would be willing to pay a fee to get a
Win32 DLL version of GPGME 1.0.2.

Regards,

Mark Riordan
Standard Networks

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