> That said, licensing issues aren't a red herring to me. I haven't looked
> at the Qt license, but in the event my coding in my own time does
> contribute to anything, I'd strongly prefer it contribute to something
> Free.
No problem. Both Qt/X11 and Qt/Embedded are avaliable under the terms of the
GPL which is the Free Software Foundations own license. It is Free Software,
you get the source code to Qt and you are free (beer and speech) to use it
for making your own GPL applications.
You have said that you would prefer to contribute to Free things. Using Qt to
make GPL applications is one way to do that. The licensing differences
therefore should effect your decision.
The other license used by the other libraries is the *Lesser* GPL (LGPL). It
is known as the Lesser GPL because it encourages people to use GPL software
for the wrong reasons, because it's generally free as in beer, and not
because it's free as in speech.
John
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