is there really no good gui builder

[Phil Thompson]

On 9 Nov 2008 19:08:35 GMT, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> Phil Thompson wrote:
> 
>>> Thay aren't claiming that Qt itself is governed by the GPL, what they
>>> are claiming is that the 'Qt Open Source License' permits you to use it
>>> for development of "Open Source software governed by the GNU General
>>> Public License versions 2 and 3". I believe they can make whatever
>>> conditions they like for their own license.
>>
>> This is just plain wrong. The open source version is licensed under
>> either
>> v2 or v3 of the GPL - your choice. There is no such thing as a separate
>> "Qt
>> Open Source License".
> 
> So are the references to 'Qt Open Source License' on the website
> misleading? It seems to me that the claims on the website are very
> carefully worded to say that you have to develop code under the GPL (or
> other open source license), not that Qt itself is released under the
> GPL, and given the additional conditions they impose I would have said
> at best it is GPL + lots of other restrictions.
> 
> Feel free to disagree, I am not an intellectual property lowyer.

Download the source, read the text of the license, it's the GPL.

Phil