License Comparison: Qt and OpenSSL
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Sun Jul 28 08:35:54 CEST 2013
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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