Trolltech has just released Qt 4.1. Many new features were added since Qt 4.0, including integrated support for rendering SVG drawings and animations, a PDF backend to the Qt printing system and a lightweight unit testing framework. Qt Designer, OpenGL support and Visual Studio .NET integration were updated too.
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Member since:2005-10-08
"You can write cross-platform commercial and non-commercial applications with the free Qt4 license, as long as you choose a free software license for your
work."
Wrong.
Because the QPL version of Qt is not available for Windows or OS X. QPL is only available on the X11 version. If you are planning to do open source devel on Windows / OS X, you have to use the GPL licensed version of Qt. And at that point, you can only license your resulting work as GPL.
From Trolltech site:
"For historical reasons, the Qt/X11 version is also available under the QPL license. We do not recommend the use of the QPL, especially if you are planning for your Open Source software to be distributed on Mac OS X or Windows."
QPL is only an option for X11. Not Windows or OS X. Your only non-commercial option on Windows / OS X is the GPL version. And as I am sure you know, that requires any code you release to be GPL.
So my statement still stands. "You can write open source cross platform software, as long as it is only the GPL version of open source."
So you told me to stop talking about things I don't know... Looks like you need to apply the same statement to yourself. Clearly I was correct about the licensing part. If you want to do cross-platform, you can ONLY use GPL unless you buy a commercial license.
Edited 2005-12-20 20:17
Member since:2005-06-29
You've wasted a lot of time to get to the point where you think you have some legitimate argument against Qt, and the funny thing is people still won't give a damn.
You'll still be the annoying troll who pops up every time there's mention of Qt so you can try to take a crap on the people who like it, and after this long display a lot of us know already that you're a troll. You're scores on all your anti-Qt comments are above -5 only by the grace of the OSNews staff who have made it very difficult to moderate people down.
All I had to do was watch the comments unfold to see that you were arguing solely for the self gratification of feeling like you've inflicted some harm on Qt. Sure you found something you don't like about it, but the rest of us won't care, we already know you wouldn't have stopped until you had some desperate argument that could hold a little water.
Member since:
2005-07-15
So again, we are back to "You can right cross-platform open source applications, as long as they are only GPL."
Wrong!
The right sentence would be:
"You can write cross-platform commercial and non-commercial applications with the free Qt4 license, as long as you choose a free software license for your work."
(look at my quote from the Trolltech-FAQ)