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> You can download a 30-day trial of Qt Enterprise from Digia’s Qt site (version 5.2 is slowly trickling out throughout the day). The open source version can me

by yapcguy 13y ago

> You can download a 30-day trial of Qt Enterprise from Digia’s Qt site (version 5.2 is slowly trickling out throughout the day). The open source version can meanwhile be snagged from Qt Project. Does anybody know the difference between the Enterprise and Open Source versions? Is it just tech support or is the Open Source version going to lack the features we really need?

purringmeow 13y ago
The only difference is support I believe.
kbutler 13y ago
The license is the critical feature: the open source version is available under GPL and LGPL. Beware of the implications for iOS development with GPL/LGPL (have to distribute source or .o files for your application).
- yapcguy 13y ago
  Ok. So if you contribute to the project, you assign copyright of your code to Digia who then dual-license the project to end-users under the GPL/LGPL and for a fee, a commercial license to use it in proprietary applications. Makes sense.
- chacham15 13y ago
  > have to distribute source or .o files for your application Not if you dynamically link
  - smnrchrds 13y ago
    Do iOS guidelines allow dynamic linking?
    - blub 13y ago
      AFAIK it's not allowed, so Qt commercial is actually the only option for non-OSS on iOS.
forgottenpaswrd 13y ago
The iOS and Android part is privative. There are open source approaches to do the same, but they don't share code, and use different technology, as far as I remember, the Open source one uses Dalvik while the other not in Android for example.