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Re:GoQt by IshKebab on Monday January 25, 2016 @06:59AM (#10966676)
CopperSpice looks interesting, though is it really a clean-room reimplementation?

Also why on earth do they tout being built with autotools as a feature?!

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Re:GoQt by tenfingers on Monday January 25, 2016 @07:03AM (#10966690)
Read their own introduction page. CopperSpice is a fork of Qt4.
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Re:GoQt by IshKebab on Monday January 25, 2016 @03:16PM (#10969636)
It says it is "derived from" and "inspired by" it. But it also says "Our libraries can be linked directly into any standard C++ application" which the LGPL of Qt 4 disallows (unless your application is open source, but then that isn't any application).
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Re:GoQt by slavik81 on Monday January 25, 2016 @04:43PM (#10970161)
Copperspice is LGPL. Like Qt, it can be dynamically linked into any standard C++ application. The key is that the user needs to be able to instead use their own version of Qt/CS, if they want.
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