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Re: qt free for windows
by Datschge on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @10:21

Microsoft let users pay per system, Trolltech let developers pay per supported platform. If you want a development platform without paying any license costs you can easily settle with an all GPL'ed system. MSDN Academic Alliance with its annual cost of US$799 per faculty/department per year isn't that cheap, even more so considering that their EULA excludes any use except educational course offered by the participating institute and related non-commercial research projects.

If your concern is all the academic area anyway why don't you just use the GPL'ed Qt? Efforts to port it to Windows are there, you could just support them if you think that's what you really need. You could also ask directly at Trolltech if they would be willing to just carbon copy that MSDN Academic Alliance thing including their EULA if that's what is needed to make you happy.

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Re: qt free for windows
by Markus Erlacher on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @10:43

This is exactly what we do: non-commercial research in our institute, but based on a Windows platform.

Trolltech does not provide a GPL'ed Qt for Windows if I see this correctly. And we don't have the time and the money to invest in another platform or port it ourselves.
But I found a Qt/Win V2.3 on the Trolltech pages, so I think we just will work with this version, as it is free for Windows and not just an evaluation version.
But I think anyhow, that this is off-topic on a KDE forum. I just got here looking in Google for GUI development tools. Another GPL GUI Toolkit I found is Fox, and if Qt 2.3 does not satisfy us, we'll give them a chance.

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Re: qt free for windows
by Datschge on Saturday 31/Jul/2004, @11:46

Trolltech has a "Qt Educational License Request Form" at http://www.trolltech.com/forms/eduprogram.html stating "The educational license is to be used on school hardware and premises for educational purposes. If you are a professor/teacher and want to let your students use Qt/Windows in your class or course, just fill in the application form below." I guess this is what you were looking for?

Other than that there's also a more recent non-commercial version of Qt/Win, version 3.2, is included on the book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3", see http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/noncomm.html

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