Qt Becomes LGPL

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @02:31AM from the that's-just-adorable dept.

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."

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It's official... by sznupi · 2009-01-14 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

...no reason for Gnome to exist anymore! ;)

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Let Joy Be Unconfined by netpixie · 2009-01-14 02:41 · 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.