Qt License Q: Joint software and hardware distribution

Hi,

There is a part in the license v2.10 which says:
"... Licensee may not distribute, transfer ... of Redistributables, solely or as part of an Application, its source code, in binary/compiled, or in any other form if such action is a part of a joint software and hardware distribution, except as provided by a seperate distribution agreement with Trolltech"

What do they mean by "joint software and hardware distribution"? Ie. I may not sell my Qt product (statically or dynamically linked) (except when Trolltech says ok) when I want to do for example: Sell a Computer with my product pre-installed on it?

Could somebody please clarify?

Regards,
Derick Schoonbee

It means you can't distibute objects (like libraries) from Qt distribution (the one licenced to you).

Derick,

This clause mainly is about embedded consumer devices and has a number of exceptions, listed in clause 10 c) in the license agreement. Distributing a computer with your Qt-based application running on either KDE/GNOME, Windows or Mac OS X is for example expressly allowed. You can contact sales@trolltech.com if you need more info.

Kind regards,
Eivind Throndsen