Re: [ILUG-BOM] The virtualbox license --- clarification from the FAQ --

2008/12/31 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:

shall we avoid the personal comments? Anyway I may be a blind idiot - but I cannot find any wording anywhere on the website which says that QT itself is released under the GPL. All I can find is that the open source edition is released for developing GPL'ed software and that the same (open source edition) may be freely copied and distributed. I do *not* find any wording stating that the open source edition may be *modified* and distributed.

Well, when you say a program is released under GPL, it means you have all the freedoms GPL gives. What QT exception says is over and above the freedoms we are granting you some more like your program need not be GPL, but it could be any other FOSS license.