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Because it's the most popular & flexible cross platform user space compositor: - unlike QT it's free for commercial use. - I don't know any other user land GU
by hacker_homie 8mo ago
Because it's the most popular & flexible cross platform user space compositor:
- unlike QT it's free for commercial use.
- I don't know any other user land GUI toolkit/compositor that isn't a game engine(unity/unreal/etc).
- WD-42 8mo agoWhy does it need to be cross platform? If code was free there would be a native app for each platform using its respective toolkit, not QT.
- hacker_homie 8mo agoWell they wanted it to be cross plat because more users. clearly the code isn’t free and writing for raw win32 is painful.
- mkl 8mo agoQt is LGPL, so free for commercial use in most situations.
- hacker_homie 8mo agoThere are rules when using the lgpl version of qt, the kde foundation has an exception I think. https://www.qt.io/development/open-source-lgpl-obligations https://www.qt.io/development/open-source-lgpl-obligations