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Trolltech?
by AC on Thursday 17/May/2001, @13:07

I suppose that Trolltech would not like the X11 version of Qt ported to Windows, since they have a non-free Windows version already.

This could get rid of one of their ways to make $$$.

It would be nice to see KDE running on Windows though. I think Gtk already has a free Windows version, so...

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Re: Trolltech?
by ac on Thursday 17/May/2001, @13:39

Gtk on Windows is hardly functional though.

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Re: Gtk on Windows is hardly functional though.
by Toastie on Thursday 17/May/2001, @16:21

Ethereal and GIMP on Windows use the GTK+ library and they work quite well. I wouldn't call that "hardly functional".

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Re: Gtk on Windows is hardly functional though.
by Kirill on Saturday 19/May/2001, @12:22

Both programs work for me too, to some extent at least. But all GTK widgets just suck very bad on Win32. GTK crashes regularly and the widgets don't even paint themselves correctly most of the time. Edit control is just horrible, and tab control is not much better.

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Re: Trolltech?
by ac on Friday 18/May/2001, @10:57

Gtk on windows works allright, DnD is flacky as well as non english, but Gtk 2.0 is beinng built to be fully XP.

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Re: Trolltech?
by A Sad Person on Thursday 17/May/2001, @13:56

I am not sure that they will mind actually,
seeing that it would still be GPLd and limited,
therefore, to free apps. People working on freeware and OSS projects are probably not the biggest market for them anyhow, and it might just increase visibility of QT in the windows world...

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Re: Trolltech?
by not me on Thursday 17/May/2001, @14:47

Well, the way I see it, if they wanted a GPL QT on Windows, they would have licensed one already. They must have reasons for not wanting it, because they have not already done it.

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Re: Trolltech?
by Justin on Friday 18/May/2001, @14:27

My guess is that lots of companies buy Qt for in-house development. If Qt/Windows went GPL, Trolltech might lose out on a lot of sales.

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Re: Trolltech?
by GeoNorth on Friday 12/May/2006, @22:57

The last.fm player is based on Qt AFAIK and they have a Windows version, don't know how they licence Qt for that particular app, but I can tell you that the player itself is released under a BSD licence so it could well be that Qt (the native Windows version, it is a native Win32 app) is GPL'd for Win32 native open source apps...

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Re: Trolltech?
by cm on Friday 12/May/2006, @23:44

This discussion is obsolete. Qt4 is available under the GPL for Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac:

http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/opensource

BTW: There's no such thing as "being GPL'd for" a certain group of apps. Either something is under the GPL or not. If you use it with the software you write you have to abide by its rules, though (release your stuff under a compatible license), and I suggest you read the GPL and the GPL FAQ before you start writing that code.

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Re: Trolltech?
by Jacek on Thursday 17/May/2001, @15:10

Pls note this is not really a port of Qt to windows, it's a port of Qt to Cygwin which provides Unix-like APIs under Windows.

it is not the same as the native version of Qt for Win32 which I'm sure is way more stable and optimized for that platform.

I think TrollTech can relax.

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Re: Trolltech?
by Massimo Santoro on Friday 18/May/2001, @15:18

I think it won't be a great idea providing a fully featured KDE system on Windows platforms. The main reason I am against it is that if it will really have a good impact, there are good chances to see many apps ported/using it JUST on Windows. I realize that it will be a GPL'd system, but... who prevents me to use Windows API's together with that product? Example: why isn't FlaskMPEG actually in development for unix platforms? Its source code is GPL'd.

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