Re: [News] Trolltech Likes GPLv3, Qt Upgraded to GPLv3!

[Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Trolltech to adopt GPL 3 for Qt
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord announced today at the KDE developer conference 
> | that the company's cross-platform open source Qt application development 
> | toolkit will be released under the GPL 3. This move, which comes shortly 
> | after the release of KDE 4.0 (watch for our review on Sunday night), will 
> | allow the open source desktop environment to adopt the new version of the 
> | GPL.     
> `----
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/01/18/trolltech-to-adopt-gpl-3-for-qt
The lame article (no reference to Roy) doesn't mention the commercial 
way of licensing Qt.  Has that changed?  It seems you still have to pay 
for a license if you want to use Qt to develop commercial software.  Can 
anybody verify that?
Hard to get comfortable with a product whose logo looks so much like a 
hammer and sickle.