"I don't see any of the other free GUI kits forking." Well I don't see "any of the other free GUI" controlled by a company. Sorry but I must have my information from the Troll homepage: "Included below is version 1.0 of the license used for version 2.0 of the Qt Free Edition." [snip] "The QPL prohibits development of proprietary software. For Qt our Qt Professional Edition product is available for this." If you look at "Qt Professional Edition" it starts at 1550$. And you have to pay a licence for each developer. Don't worry it gets cheaper (per head) if you have a lot of developer...:) Have you programmed QT when 'moc' was around ?
License issues: * you can't fork QT development. * you can't make commercial software with QT without having to pay Troll.
Technical issues: * QT is C++, which makes it harder to program it another language than C++. * QT imposes (or at least strongly encourages) the use of a preprocessor which painfully reminds of MFC.
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"I don't see any of the other free GUI kits forking." Well I don't see "any of the other free GUI" controlled by a company. Sorry but I must have my information from the Troll homepage: "Included below is version 1.0 of the license used for version 2.0 of the Qt Free Edition." [snip] "The QPL prohibits development of proprietary software. For Qt our Qt Professional Edition product is available for this." If you look at "Qt Professional Edition" it starts at 1550$. And you have to pay a licence for each developer. Don't worry it gets cheaper (per head) if you have a lot of developer... :) Have you programmed QT when 'moc' was around ?
When will they drop QT ?
License issues:
* you can't fork QT development.
* you can't make commercial software with QT without having to pay Troll.
Technical issues:
* QT is C++, which makes it harder to program it another language than C++.
* QT imposes (or at least strongly encourages) the use of a preprocessor which painfully reminds of MFC.
Mathias