License Comparison: Qt and OpenSSL

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:22, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> So it is: the Qt license has changed since I last looked at it.  Good
> for them!  The OpenSSL/GPL conflict is real and has prevented software

FWIW: KDE and QT use an exception to allowing linking agains OpenSSL:

    In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
    permission to link the code of this program with any edition of
    the Qt library by Trolltech AS, Norway (or with modified versions
    of Qt that use the same license as Qt), and distribute linked
    combinations including the two.  You must obey the GNU General
    Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
    Qt.  If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to
    your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If
    you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from
    your version.

However, there are often conflicts because other GPL code is used which
does not carry this exception.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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