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Re: GPL version of QT for MacOS X?
by Justin on Monday 24/Sep/2001, @21:35

My guess is no. I believe Qt/Mac will be treated exactly like Qt/Windows. Here's my detective work as to why:

1) Check out this link: http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/edumac.html
Apparently, Qt/Mac will be free for academic use. This would only be relevent if there is no GPL Qt/Mac.

2) See the Non-commercial Qt FAQ: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faq/noncomm.html
It states: "We released Qt/X11 under those licenses, because it runs as major component on totally Free operating systems..." and "Once Microsoft Windows is completely open source, we will reconsider." Since MacOS X is not fully open source, it will be treated like Windows.

3) The Aqua look is heavily guarded by Apple. If Qt/Mac was GPL, then the Aqua QStyle would be too. This would go against Apple policy.

There you have it.

We might see a "non-commercial" version, like they did with Qt/Windows.

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