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Do you know if there are free open source alternatives to fbs and qt? I mean free both as beer and freedom.
by Lucasoato 5y ago
Do you know if there are free open source alternatives to fbs and qt?
I mean free both as beer and freedom.
- spacechild1 5y agoQt is available as LGPL.
- galangalalgol 5y agoFor the end user but for a commercial developer you have to pay I believe.
- jcelerier 5y agoabsolutely not, LGPL is LGPL no matter who you are. Such a restriction would make it incompatible with the LGPL (or even any free software license).
- galangalalgol 5y agoAfter reading their licensing that is now obvious. There is a group at my megacorp that ises it heavily from windows and they pay for tons of licenses. I'm not sure why. Unless they are static linking some of the gpl v3 modules and don't want to release code, I don't know why anyone would select the commercial qt license.
- jcelerier 5y agoThere's historically been a metric ton of FUD around this
- scarygliders 5y agoIf you install PySide/PySide2/PySide6, you don't need to install Qt as well. Included with PySide[2|6] is QtDesigner, hidden in the distribution but available for use, and all the compiled Qt libraries. The application created from that can be released closed source as using Qt under LGPL. As for packaging; Use PyInstaller, which creates a dist directory. Included in that dist directory will be everything needed to run your Python/Qt application. Use Inno Setup/Inno Script Studio (https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) to package that dist folder into an installer. The end result will be a self contained installer which acts just like any other Windows software with an installer. I use all the above to create and distribute Captain's Log (https://captainslog.scarygliders.net https://captainslog.scarygliders.net)
- _fizz_buzz_ 5y agoI am using kivy for a small project. Works pretty well for me. https://kivy.org/ https://kivy.org/