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The small business license is $499 and you only have to pay that if you want to statically link against QT without dealing with the LGPL. Dynamic linking Qt is
by josefx 6y ago
The small business license is $499 and you only have to pay that if you want to statically link against QT without dealing with the LGPL. Dynamic linking Qt is the default, costs $0 and doesn't incur the wrath of the LGPL.
- jmnicolas 6y agoThanks, I didn't know that. I looked at QT 4 or 5 years ago and dismissed too quickly apparently. Wasn't there talks about ending the lgpl version ? I thought I read somewhere that KDE devs were quite worried.
- josefx 6y agoThere are agreements with kde that prevent the Qt company from outright dropping free licenses: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php As far as I can tell from that the LGPLv3 seems to be required under the current terms of the agreement.
- michaelsbradley 6y agoStatic linking also costs $0 if you comply with the terms of the LGPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn... Note that does not necessarily require “your code” to be/come open source.
- mmargerum 6y agoIs that $499 per platform? I'm using Lazarus right now (after QT sticker shock). It's pretty good and free. I rather like object pascal. TMS has a webcore product that runs out of Visual studio (non free) which is also object pascal and generates an html/js SPA. i'm not affiliated with them at all. Just a fan.
- josefx 6y agoPer developer and I think that covers all mobile and desktop platforms.