Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th May 2008 08:54 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
Yesterday, Trolltech released the final version of Qt 4.4, their graphical toolkit which forms the base for, among a lot of other things, the KDE project. It still features the dual-license model (of course), so proprietary developers can license Qt, while open source developers can get a GPLd version (both GPL 2 as well as 3). Read on for a quick overview of the new features, as well as some findings by Ars Technica.
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2007-02-17
What exactly is wrong with the dual-licensing policy?
If you are going to use Qt in a closed, commercial, for-your-profit application, you have to pay Trolltech a license for using Qt as part of your product. This is the same deal as with any other commercial toolkit.
If you are going to use Qt in a give-code-back-to-the-developer-community open source application, then Trolltech are happy that you need pay them no license fee for that.
It seems like a perfectly fair arrangement to me.
Edited 2008-05-07 14:49 UTC