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> "now available in version 6 with much less restricted licenses"... that's quite a weak praise given that it is available as LGPL, GPL or commercial non FOSS l
by j1elo 6y ago
> "now available in version 6 with much less restricted licenses"... that's quite a weak praise given that it is available as LGPL, GPL or commercial non FOSS licensing.
I was already writing UI applications with an LGPL licensed Qt 4.x, so the version 6 hasn't changed in that regard, just like version 5 didn't change either. And I'm sure Qt was already FOSS in earlier versions, but 4 and 5 are the ones I can confirm having FOSS licenses.
- seba_dos1 6y agoQt3 was GPL (or commercial); with Qt4 LGPL option was added.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoIIRC Qt now requires registration to download their releases. And some drama around how frequently OSS releases would get updates.
- jcelerier 6y ago> IIRC Qt now requires registration to download their releases. not if you use it throuh vcpkg or https://pypi.org/project/aqtinstall/ https://pypi.org/project/aqtinstall/ or your distro's package manager or mingw or...
- paulryanrogers 6y agoAren't these all downstream sources, and therefore may lag or fork? IME it used to be possible to anonymously get binaries and sources from Qt themselves.
- jcelerier 6y agoaqt uses the upstream qt repos
- konjin 6y agoFrom memory version 2 is the one that moved to gpl and this happened before 2001. So this is reheating a 20 year old talking point.