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If you're building commercial products, then "it'd be great if everything was free because that's more profit for me", but usually it doesn't work out that way.

• jacobush 8y ago
  Oh wow, way to over react. How about - our dirt cheap embedded product can not bear the cost of the (great BTW) QT library so we have to make do with something else, perhaps our own polished turd. Or - we could easily afford it except that it's neigh impossible for us on the dev level to get an audience with the powers higher up in the company imbued with the ability to bless payments for software. AKA corporate spend. In times of budget freeze, even a request for such frivolous expenditure can usually not be done without the proper ritual sacrifice of someone in middle management. It's really hard to get volunteers. Known workarounds are to start developing in QT (or whatever) and postpone the ritual sacrifice of middle management personell until the shit hits the fan AKA release date, or to just use something else. (It's possible a smashing success at release may make it easier to forgive and forget and not look too hard into which middle management drone should take the blame the licensing slip up.) Another workaround is to pretend that LGPL = MIT for all intents and purposes but that is frowned upon in certain corporations priding themselves with such things as ethics and licensing guidelines.