Qt Becomes LGPL

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."

Comments

Re:Hello Moto

[Ant P.]

The GPL is nature's way of making Linux similarly attractive.

The GPL isn't the reason why people use Linux (barring a small handful of nutjobs, the type that make up a significant amount of BSD users). People use it because it's better.

Re:Kills any idea of using Qt in our products

[Brandybuck]

Why the heck is this modded down as a troll? Yet more evidence that the Slashdot moderation system is seriously broken.