On Monday 23 June 2003 01:32, Martijn Houtman wrote:
On Saturday 21 June 2003 22:12, Salman Khilji wrote:
if its a free tool, then Qt is not your choice since the Windows version is not free (and according to some people not GPL compatible).
AFAIK the windows version of Qt 2.x _is_ released under the exact same dual-license (GPL/QPL?), thus free to use as long as your app is GPL'ed. Point is, this only holds for a specific 2.x version, while it does not hold for any 3.x version.
That is not correct. The Windows version of Qt-2.3 was released under a non-commercial licence, which is much more restrictive than the GPL and doesn't come with source. The experiment was a failure. Trolltech discovered that a lot of people were breaking the licence and developing commercial software with it, so they decided not to release any more versions under the Qt-NCL. That version of Qt is still widely used though, because it was the most mature of the 2.x series and still works really well. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003