Qt Becomes LGPL 828
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Aequo writes "Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia, will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer."
More.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's official... (Score:5, Funny)
...no reason for Gnome to exist anymore! ;)
Let Joy Be Unconfined (Score:5, Funny)
Whilst being very good at code and generally geekery, Trolltech are total rubbish at the support game, leaving paying developers (i.e. me a few years ago) feeling massively shafted when being told "here's the code, fix it yourself". WTF am I paying for If I have to not only find your bugs, but fix them as well?
Now everything is back as it should be - free code and no support, the way God intended.
Wierd... (Score:3, Funny)
It's not every day that a cross-platform GUI framework suddenly turns into (becomes) a licence...
Re:A GUI for MySQL? (Score:4, Funny)
At last! Qt has gone LGPL! The final obstacle to our creating a front-end for MySQL has been removed!
What on earth are you talking about?
Re:Yeah but KDE doesn't work. (Score:2, Funny)
Over my dead body. I can't stand KDE 4.0.
Can you send us your address?
I wonder if you ever had to develop new widgets based on GTK ... This post should get developers quite excited.
Re:Strategy fail (Score:3, Funny)
There is possibility that major GUI appications will move gradually towards managed code (Java) so QT + GTK would become only sort of low-level windowing library sitting between X and Java apps. Major IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans) are proof-of-a-concept, except startup times issue, which certainly should be addressed by Sun VM. I would welcome such transision but it will not happen in next 5 years, thats for sure. There are just too many C/C++ apps in Linux to rewrite and some of them (Office, Browser) are really complex.
Re:Hello Moto (Score:5, Funny)
No, the GPL just presumes to attempt to restrict what I do with my code that has no GPL code in it. Which is within their rights, but thoroughly corrupt and domineering of them.
Which makes sense, as Stallman is the ugliest type of human being--the zealot.
cough Kettle, pot, black, what?
We all know why GNOME is ill (Score:4, Funny)
It caught Mono through an ill-considered tryst with Miguel ;)
Re:Hello Moto (Score:5, Funny)
Which makes sense, as Stallman is the ugliest type of human being--the zealot.
Stallman is a member of a Jewish political movement from the first century AD whose primary goal is to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire?
Re:Strategy fail (Score:4, Funny)
What I'd really like to see is a common password storage.
It's called a .txt file. In the ~/.secretstuff/ directory.
I felt... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:time to port gnome! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hello Moto (Score:5, Funny)
Stallman is a member of a Jewish political movement from the first century AD whose primary goal is to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire?
No, he's a ground melee fighter armed with psi-blades, serving as the core of many Protoss forces, especially in the early-to-mid game.
Re:Hello Moto (Score:5, Funny)
You mean... The Judean People's Front?
Re:Hello Moto (Score:3, Funny)
Splitter!