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Trolltech to Extend Dual-License to Qt/Windows

Posted by Hemos on from the excellent-moves dept.

scc writes " Trolltech announced today that Qt 4 will be available on Windows under the GPL. While Trolltech has long dual-licensed Qt on X11 (Linux, various Unixes), Mac, and embedded, Windows developers have had no options other than a commercial license."

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  1. Trolltech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does this refer to the technology that automatically inserts GNAA trolls on Slashdot as first posts?

  2. I wish trolltech was associated with canopy by walterbyrd · · Score: -1, Troll

    Canopy of course is the parent company of scox. Recently Canopy's CEO (Yarrro) and CFO (Mott) were both fired, and Noorda Family trust, which owns canopy is suing Yarro for stealling over $20MM.

    Canopy is an absolutely filthy organization. But, trolltech refuses to disassociate from canopy or scox. Trolltech will tell you that they don't approve of scox, but trolltech refuses to ask canopy to divest; and trolltech will not sell their own investment in canopy companies.

  3. it's "bad" for Linux and KDE by jeif1k · · Score: -1, Troll

    Qt competes with both commercial and free toolkits, and it is expensive. For a fraction of the price of a commercial Qt license, I can get all of Visual Studio, not just a toolkit. It's also bad because platform vendors are reluctant to choose it for anything that might ever see commercial use because once they do, pricing for development on their platform is not under their control.

    I don't know what a good way is to pay commercial companies like Troll Tech, I just know that the licensing model they actually have chosen severely limits Qt's acceptance. If they had used the LGPL, Gnome would never have gotten off the ground. The way it is, I'm sure KDE will eventually just go away.