Hello, I decided to publish this on the main mailling list as it probably interrests many people.
This will probably be a cold shower for those involved with Qt interface, but Qt's licensing contains absurd clauses, which basically state that you must do the entire development of your software using the commercial license, or otherwise you cannot use it at all. More information here: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/182/ So it's completely impossible to use commercial Qt to port a existing application. And it's also impossible to use the Lazarus Qt interface with the Qt commercial license. Another FAQ entry here: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/knowledgebase/123/ I developed the Qt interface because I wanted to learn how LCL works internally, and in that I was very sucessful. Several internal parts of LCL are now documented now because of this. Also, Qt is fun to use, and I had a good time. The Qt interface is still useful for GPL applications, and I will keep applying patches, and probably finish porting the GPL magnifier, because I'm so near, but we must admit: Qt's licensing is absurd, and further work on Qt interface is useless to anything except GPL applications. I write lot's of GPL apps, but I also write lot's of proprietary applications, so with that my interrest on Qt has droped dramatically, knowing it's nearly useless. It's a bit frustrating, but let's move on, and work on the Gtk 2 and Carbon interfaces =) wish you all best, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
