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Additional rights granted beyond the GPL (the "Exception").

As a special exception to the terms and conditions of GPL version 2.0 or GPL version 3.0, Nokia Corporation hereby grants you the rights described below, provided you agree to the terms and conditions in this Exception, including its obligations and restrictions on use.

Nothing in this Exception gives you or anyone else the right to change the licensing terms of the Qt Open Source Edition.

Below, "Licensed Software" shall refer to the software licensed under the GPL version 2.0 or GPL version 3.0 and this exception.

1) The right to use open source licenses not compatible with the GNU General Public License version 2.0 or GNU General Public License version 3.0: You may link software (hereafter referred to as "Your Software") against the Licensed Software and/or distribute binaries of Your Software linked against the Licensed Software, provided that:

A) Your Software is licensed under one of the following licenses:

License nameVersion(s)/Copyright Date
Academic Free License2.0, 2.1, 3.0
Apache Software License1.0 or 1.1
Apache License2.0
Apple Public Source License2.0
Artistic license(as set forth in the addendum file)
BSD license"July 22 1999"
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)1.0
Common Public License1.0
Eclipse Public License1.0
GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)2.0, 2.1, 3.0
Jabber Open Source License1.0
MIT License(as set forth in the addendum file)
Mozilla Public License (MPL)1.0 or 1.1
Open Software License2.0, 3.0
OpenSSL license (with original SSLeay license)"2003" ("1998")
PHP License3.0
Python license (CNRI Python License)(as set forth in the addendum file)
Python Software Foundation License2.1.1
Q Public License1.0
Sleepycat License"1999"
W3C License"2001"
X11 LicenseX11R6.6
Zlib/libpng License(as set forth in the addendum file)
Zope Public License2.0, 2.1

(Licenses without a specific version number or date are reproduced in the file GPL_Exception_Addendum.txt in your source package).

and

B) You must, on request, make a complete package including the complete source code of Your Software (as defined in the GNU General Public License version 2, section 3, but excluding anything excluded by the special exception in the same section) available to Nokia Corporation under the same license as that granted to other recipients of the source code of Your Software.

and

C) Your or any other contributor's rights to:

i) distribute the source code of Your Software to anyone for any purpose;

and

ii) publicly discuss the development project for Your Software and its goals in any form and in any forum are not prohibited by any legal instrument, including but not limited to contracts, non-disclosure agreements, and employee contracts.

2) The right to link non-open source applications with pre-installed versions of the Licensed Software: You may link applications with binary pre-installed versions of the Licensed Software, provided that such applications have been developed and are deployed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Qt Commercial License Agreement.


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