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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