is there really no good gui builder
Phil Thompson
phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Nov 9 12:23:33 EST 2008
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:15:42 -0500, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com>
wrote:
> Phil Thompson wrote:
>
>>
>> The only "additional" restrictions are those imposed by the *commercial*
>> license. As I said before, those restrictions are intended to discourage
>> commercial developers from avoiding paying license costs during their
>> development phase.
>>
>>
>
> Is this interpretation of Qt's license correct:
>
> A developer may use the open-source edition of Qt to develop commercial
> software with licenseing fees, provided that the developer releases the
> product and source code under an open-source license compatible with the
> GPL..
>
> This means that if the developer is willing to take the risk of having
> all product source code open, with the attendant possibility of a
> modified version of the developer's product being freely redistributed
> without code enforcing any licensing fees, then the developer may forego
> paying commercial license fees to Qt (and Riverbank, if the product is
> PyQt) and use the open-source version.
If the above is a correct interpretation of the GPL, then yes.
Phil
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