But, if there is a GPL version of Qt, shouldn’t that be portable to
Windows and remain GPL under Windows?
How can Qt be GPL in one platform and not on another?
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
Most people I talk to seem to think Qt is the best overall.
But if you care about compatibility with Windows – it’s
not free on MS platforms.
But, if there is a GPL version of Qt, shouldn’t that be portable to
Windows and remain GPL under Windows?
How can Qt be GPL in one platform and not on another?
Trolltech needs to make money to pay the developers, too.
It was probably a business decision, hoping to have linux-apps
being ported to windows.
There were literally thousands of emails and arguments
in the linux camp of Qt versus gtk because of the
various licensing issues associated with Qt.
You might want to look at the QT FAQs.
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/index.html
Cheers,
-A.
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I’m not sure the issue about QT not being free on windows is correct. This
certainly used to be the case a year or more ago, but those times have
passed. They have a non-commercial version which gives no support and
binary
only. There are some other restrictions but I hate legal mumbo jumbo and
seeing as I don’t want to go to sleep yet, i might bookmark this and read
it
later (at bedtime). For those interested:
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/qt-win-noncomm.html
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/noncomm.html
No source, and not the most recent version and thus prevents you from
develop cross-platform Linux/Windows.
It’s not a realistic choice without the commercial version.
Mikkel
Trolltech needs to make money to pay the developers, too.
It was probably a business decision, hoping to have linux-apps
being ported to windows.
Yes, I understand their motivations. But the fact remains that if they
release a library under the GPL it can legally be ported to Windows as
long as it remains GPL.
Come to think of it, perhaps it’s just that the port would take too much
work. It probably would. And people probably also want to respect
Trolltech’s decision.
There were literally thousands of emails and arguments
in the linux camp of Qt versus gtk because of the
various licensing issues associated with Qt.
Yes I remember. I think it was a smart decision to make QtFree available
under the GPL as well.
You might want to look at the QT FAQs.
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/index.html
Thanks, I read it. But my question is not there (nor did I expect it to
be).
Cheers,
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept.
University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Armin Roehrl wrote: