Yes, that's an issue, but only if you don't want to make your Qt client Free Software. Since nowadays most client-side applications are tied to some web service

Yes, that's an issue, but only if you don't want to make your Qt client Free Software. Since nowadays most client-side applications are tied to some web service anyway, releasing those as Free Software might even be advantageous. Having said that, statically linked wxWidgets .exe files are usually smaller than Qt .exe files. Moreover, dynamically linking to Qt does have technical advantages for certain types of applications (mostly plugin architectures). Shameless plug: You can create all variants (Qt or wxWidget, each statically or dynamically linked) very conveniently on your Linux build server via cross-compiling, which has become really easy thanks to the MXE project that I started in 2007. http://mxe.cc http://mxe.cc