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/*!
\page opensourcelicense.html
\title Open Source Licensing of Qt
\ingroup licensing
\brief Information about open source licensing of Qt.
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is software that comes with a license
that gives users certain rights. In particular the right to use the
software, to modify it, to obtain its source, and to pass it on (under
the same terms). Notice that the term "free" is about rights, not
money. The Free Software Foundation, the creator of the GNU GPL, speaks
of free in this context as in "free speech", not as in "no cost".
The Qt Company supports the free software concept by providing the Qt Open Source
Edition, which is licensed under the \l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)}
version 3. You can use this edition of Qt to create and distribute software with licenses
that are compatible with this free software license.
Additionally, the \l{Qt Examples and Tutorials}{examples} included with Qt are provided under
the terms of the \l{New and Modified BSD Licenses}{Modified BSD License}.
The support of open source with the Open Source Versions of Qt has enabled large
successful software projects like KDE to thrive, with thousands of developers
around the world using open source versions of Qt at no cost to themselves.
The Open Source Edition can be downloaded from the \l{Downloads} page.
More information on Free and Open Source software is available online.
\list
\li GNU LGPL: \l http://www.gnu.org/
\li Open Source licensing: \l http://www.opensource.org/
\endlist
See \l{Licensing Information} for a collection of documents about licenses
used in Qt.
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in the \l{Qt Licensing Overview} on the Qt website.
If you are in doubt what edition of Qt is right for your project,
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