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List:       kde
Subject:    QT license
From:       Aaron Granick <parallax () ucsd ! edu>
Date:       1997-05-26 4:23:52
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I was just visiting the TrollTech web page, and decided to glance at the
commercial license section, and noticed that commercial use of QT costs
almost $1500!  This could be a serious hinderance to commercial KDE
development ( which I believe is vital to make KDE universally
popular...one of the main reasons windows has succeeded so well is
simply the number and quality of apps available, not the OS itself).  To
expect truly high quality applications, you are going to have to be
willing to pay for it.

This license fee could pose a significant problem, imho. (I was playing
with the idea of making an IDE native to KDE, but a $1500  license fee
would mean that I could not sell it as a commercial product.

Has anyone else discussed this problem? Are there any solutions in the
works (like a free version of QT, like lesstif to motif )?

Or perhaps someone knows of a nice GUI library out there that is free? 
QT is really nice, and i like the programming model.  I don't really
like Motif, and the others seem to be quite limited (perhaps this is why
QT was chosen in the first place?)

Comments?

Aaron

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