On Thursday 30 November 2000 22:46, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jason Stokes">
>
> > Dual-licensed, actually. Basically, the licensing sticking point with
> > QT is that if you want to write a close-source application that links to
> > QT, you have to buy a license from Troll-tech. I find this deeply
> > undesirable, but you can't blame Troll Tech for trying to make money.
>
> lol - you can't blame Trolltech employees for knowing what they're talking
> about either. You may want to check a few headers... :)
lol. I really didn't want to get in to the whole licensing thing. Jason is
correct, but a bit of a pedant. I knew this would happen. <shakes head>
(BTW while we are being pedantic, I believe the licensing allows you to
write close-source applications to your hearts content, you just can't
release them - IANAL)
Clearly the original post from Martin indicated he just wanted to learn GUI
programming, I don't think he was intending to use it for commercial
development, so I was trying to keep it simple.
For someone learning, Qt is the way to go. Really it is. Licensing issues are
just a red herring for most people. But I wouldn't discourage anyone from
trying other toolkits, just as long as they give Qt a go and don't dismiss it
because of some silly licensing arguement.
It would be good if Martin tried learning both GTK and Qt and told SLUG about
his experiences with both.
How about it Martin?
John
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