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Qt Released For OS X

Posted by timothy on from the merging-venn-diagrams dept.

AxsDeny writes: "It looks like Macslash is also reporting this, but Trolltech is now offering Qt for OS X. Long live cross platform development." Doesn't look like there's a Free version, but there is a non-commerical license called the "Qt Academic License," which "Allows schools and universities to acquire and use Qt for free in relevant courses."

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  1. Re:Qt non-free versions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm kinda curious how people can still claim BSD is free anymore, with so many proprietary derivatives. Sure, some version somewhere is BSD-licensed.

  2. Re:This is good news. by BlowCat · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Only purist 'license zealots' will worry about the terms of the license.
    Wrong. If you violate the license you are potentially in trouble. If you are a company in Europe or in the United States and you use Qt in violation of the license, your chances to be sued by Trolltech are very high (I would say above 50%).

    Of course, if you are in Russia (seems to be the case for you) or in North Korea or in Iraq, you may want to risk. However, please don't generalize. I'm not a license zealot, but I'm not going to violate their license (e.g. pretend to be a university professor).

  3. Re:I don't mind them charging ... by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Further, TrollTech is activly hostile to the idea of shareware. A method that students and graduates often use to earn a little extra money. Having had a shareware program of my own keep me in computer parts for 8 years and wanting to port to mac/linux I looked into Troll and was agast at the prices they charge for "commercial" software and even more agast at the fact that they specifically call out "Shareware" as a totally unworkable software model, which they will never support.

    wxWindows is not quite as professional as QT and last time I tried the mac port it was severely trailing the windows/linux port (About a year ago). But at least there's hope for people that both don't want to be starving for the rest of their life or have to be MS itself to afford their commercial lisence fees.

    --
    Contrary to popular belief, coding is not all free blow-jobs and beer. Those things cost MONEY!
  4. Re:Another good link by spicyjeff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lovely grass roots promotion scheme...to bad Kuro5hin sucks.