On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Aviram Jenik wrote: > Hi, > > We are currently debating on what GUI infrastructure to use for one of our > products, and the main downside of qt seems to be its constraining license. > Can anyone shed more light on this subject? How much does the qt license cost > to develop a non-GPL product that uses qt library?
First of all, you can develop any open-source product whose license is compatible with the GPL with Qt. This includes modBSD, X11, Clarified Artistic, LGPL and other licenses. Secondly it can be used to develop any product that is meant for internal/in-house use. The GPL specifically gives way to such a posssibility. If this is not the case for you, then the pricing can be found here: http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/pricing.html > Does it also apply for tools like kdevelop? No. You can fully use GPL tools to develop proprietary applications. The KDE support libraries are licensed under the LGPL so there's no added cost there. > Are there any free (read: completely free, with no "we're-free-but" fine > print) alternatives other than gtk and WxWindows? > There are plenty others: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool.html Of these the dominant ones are: The FOX Toolkit, Mozilla's XUL and the FLTK. None of them require a license to be used commercially. Also check: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/928/ for a review and comparison of Qt, Gtk, FOX, wxWindows and FLTK. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > "It was only a one liner. A semi-illiterate chipmunk could've written > it. " -- MBY about his 2.5.73 kernel patch in tpam_queues.c > > - Aviram > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
