On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org> wrote:
> Am I missing something big? Please say I am :-) You are missing the desktop side's point. So far, there has been no way to implement a cross-platform application and deploy it without GPL (e.g. perhaps as standard freeware). Perhaps you might have developed a GPL app you distribute for free on desktop, but make a smaller version and release it for s60/maemo and try peddling it for $5/pop. That would be impossible under the old license (and you can't just buy a commercial license and recompile). The biggest perk here is that Qt becomes more of an "open standards" toolkit, and less of a product. This will attract much more developer interest even from hardcore GPL people. Many projects chose Gtk+ (or wx, or even Java) because of the licensing issue, regardless of technical discrepancies.Google has a wealth of flamewars about Qt licensing, which should now come to end... -- Ville M. Vainio http://tinyurl.com/vainio _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
