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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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RE[3]: The BEST!

by danieldk on Wed 7th May 2008 18:59 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: The BEST!"

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What exactly is wrong with the dual-licensing policy?

There are some other good GUI toolkits with licenses that allow both use in free software and proprietary software. So, this can be an advantage of some toolkits other than Qt.

It seems like a perfectly fair arrangement to me.

This starts to look like a straw man

, I never said their arrangement unfair. Troll Tech created Qt, so it's their call to draw the lines. But this, and the other properties of Qt I mentioned make it less attractive to me, and possibly others.

Remember, not everybody is an absolutist

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Edited 2008-05-07 18:59 UTC

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