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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This discussion is obsolete.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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