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GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by SHiFT on Monday 12/Apr/2004, @14:29

They say that so far there is no community for FREE win-32 applications.
maybe. But what there is -- is huge demand for free Cross-Platform applications. Good examples are OpenOffice and Mozilla. The only good QT example that i know is SIM -- but for WIN-32 they have to use QT 2.3.

Another proof of such demand is that QT-X11 fork started by volunteers to create a GPL'ed Win32 version.

Unfortunately, For my research project i have to use wxWindows becasue it has to work both in Windows, Irix and Linux. :-(

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by Datschge on Monday 12/Apr/2004, @16:13

What is your problem? As mentioned in the article itself, if their contibutors are easy to reach SIM could just change the license to include an exception for Qt/Win32 so that SIM can be build with the non-commercial Qt/Win version.

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by fault on Monday 12/Apr/2004, @18:19

There is a non-commercial version of Qt3 out now..

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by Niek on Tuesday 13/Apr/2004, @05:54

Huh? Where did you get that information from?

Qt 2.3.0 is the only non-commercial version availible at ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/non-commercial/

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by Roberto Alsina on Tuesday 13/Apr/2004, @06:00

It comes with a book. It was announced right here a couple of months ago.

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by SuperDave on Tuesday 13/Apr/2004, @09:26

Where is this version? (you have peaked my interest)

As of today, the trolltech web site says nothing about a non-commercial version of Qt 3 for Windows

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by Datschge on Tuesday 13/Apr/2004, @11:59

Yes, it does. See http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/noncomm.html

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by SuperDave on Thursday 15/Apr/2004, @06:53

No it doesn't ... that page only gives status for Qt 2.3 - not Qt 3.x -- am I missing something here? Qt 2.3 is aincent, and trying to maintain a (py)Qt project with the unix 3.x codebase while windows is stuck in 2.3 sounds like a big pain in the but.

If all you need is Qt 2.3, this is good enough I guess - but it doesn't cut it for more advanced cross platform open source apps - which is exactly where Qt would shine. The article actually touches on this fact -- licensing being the problem.

Well, this has led me to choose wxPython for my next project, even though I would have preferred Qt. It could be worse, I could be using MFC! :)

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Re: GPL'ed QT3-WIN32 is needed!!!
by David on Thursday 15/Apr/2004, @07:12

"When the official Qt Book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" is released, we plan to include a CD with a special non-commercial "book-version" of Qt/Windows 3.1."

Looks like you can get the non-commercial version, but you can't download it as of yet. However, buying a book seems a pretty small price to pay - at least you get some good documentation, help and software bundled together.

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