is there really no good gui builder

[Terry Reedy]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> writes:

>> In effect this means that if you want to develop any commercial
>> software with Qt you have to buy the license in advance (even if all
>> you want is to knock together some proof-of-concept) and you are
>> also permanently locked out from including any previously developed
>> Qt code which the wider community may have produced.
> 
> That is a common misconception,

It looks to me like the plain reading of the Trolltech license.  I think 
one would be foolish to act on the belief that it does not mean what it 
seems to mean.  Trolltech must know how people interpret it and has had 
years to change it.  Since they have not, I presume it says what they mean.

 > which is not made any better by
> misleading text like that found at the above page, and misleading
> dichotomies like GPL versus “commercial license”. A careful reader
> of the GPL will see that there is explicitly *no* restriction placed
> on redistributing the work commercially: any fee may be charged.

The operative license for QT is the QT license, not the GPL.
They want people even thinking about going commercial to buy a 
commercial license from the beginning.  I am sure that in their 
judgment, this gains more that it loses.  And I would not be surprised 
if they are right.