Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by Arizhel on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @12:40AM (#14039696)

Yeah, either you make your whole project GPL, or you buy a license so you can make your code proprietary/non-GPL.

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by thope on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:42AM (#14039960)

I thought LGPL meant if you link to (Qt) shared libraries, your project does not have to be LGPL ?

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by Arizhel on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:44AM (#14042411)

You're right, Qt is available under LGPL 3.0 now.

https://www.qt.io/licensing-comparison/

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by pjmlp on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:47AM (#14040240)

Not all platforms allow for dynamic linking.

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by fnord123 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:03AM (#14041185)

Out of interest, which platforms that Qt targets, cannot have dynamic linking?

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by pjmlp on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:02AM (#14041413)

Embedded devices, car infotainment systems, iOS (only dynamic frameworks from Apple are allowed).

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by zanny on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @02:50PM (#14044535)

If you are targeting ios you are already paying Apple for a developer account, so paying Qt basically just doubles the license cost. Everything else is fairly exclusively corporate, where Qt licenses are a non-issue.

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by pjmlp on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:01PM (#14045589)

I don't see an issue paying for Qt, other professions pay for their tools.

I was just giving an exemple where LGPL isn't possible.

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Re:Where will UX Design be in 5 years? by justsid on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:45PM (#14069220)

iOS allows dynamic libraries these days. Granted, it didn’t allow for them for a long time, but since iOS 8 you can use dynamic libraries just fine.

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