Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th May 2008 08:54 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
Qt 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[4]: The BEST!
by anda_skoa on Wed 7th May 2008 22:12 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: The BEST!"
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There are some other good GUI toolkits with licenses that allow both use in free software and proprietary software.

Qt can also be used in free software as well as proprietary software. I am absolutely certain because I use it for free software as a KDE developer and for proprietary software as a developer in a software company.

Actually some of the alternatives have only plain LGPL licences, which means it is not possible to link them or parts of them statically into a product without distributing all the rest as relinkable object files as well.
There is no way our management would approve these.

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