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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by bb101 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:55AM (#16984373)
Doesn't QT cost $459 per month per developer[1] for use in commercial applications? That price is prohibitive for anyone but established enterprise.

[1] https://www1.qt.io/buy-product/

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by mherrmann on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:03AM (#16984402)
No. In many cases, you can use Qt under the LGPL and thus for free. This is especially true when you use it via Python bindings such as PyQt.
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by superrad on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:54AM (#16984574)
PyQT isn't LGPL though, it only offers GPLv3 or Commercial licensing.
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by mherrmann on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:02AM (#16984591)
That's true. So using PyQt you likely need a commercial license for PyQt and not Qt. Alternatively, you can use PySide2 instead of PyQt to avoid this restriction, but it's less mature.
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by WaltPurvis on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:10AM (#16986712)
Less mature for the moment, but it's getting more official support and resources, so that will probably change. (They've also changed the name from PySide2 to Qt for Python.)

http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/04/13/qt-for-python-is-coming-to...

License-wise: "Qt for Python will have the same licensing as Qt for Application Development, i.e. it will be available under GPL, LGPL and commercial."

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by bb101 on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:13AM (#16984443)
That's good to know. Thanks for the info.
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