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Qt is under the LGPL. So long as you do not modify the main libraries you are free to link against it with a proprietary app and can distribute the binaries so
by X-Istence 15y ago
Qt is under the LGPL. So long as you do not modify the main libraries you are free to link against it with a proprietary app and can distribute the binaries so long as you also provide source when asked.
See: http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing
- nl 15y agoHistorically, that wasn't always the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)#Licensing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)#Licensing The LGPL option was only added in 2009. Prior to that, various licencing mechanisms were used to extract revenue on various platforms. (Eg, at one point the *nix version was GPL'ed but the Windows one wasn't, so you needed to pay to ship it on Windows)