Announcing React/NodeGUI – Build Native Desktop Apps with JavaScript and CSS

Re:Announcing React/NodeGUI – Build Native Desktop Apps with... by hexrcs on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:30PM (#20706731)

> Note: Since we do not in any way modify the code of Qt and only link to it dynamically, I beleive we are in compliance with the LGPL license requirements of QT. And hence this library can be licensed under its own License (for which we have chosen MIT License). The links to QT source code and appropriate license notices are attached. We try our best to abide by the software licenses and any non compliance is not by will. If there is some discrepancy please let us know in the issues and we will try and fix it up. If you follow the recommended build steps and do not statically link QT libraries on your own you are safe to use this library for commerical puropses (provided you abide by MIT License).

Anyone familiar with licensing, is the author's note here correct, and can we use NodeGUI just like any other MIT libraries, eg. bundling the GUI part for distribution?

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Re:Announcing React/NodeGUI – Build Native Desktop Apps with... by rvz on Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:27PM (#20707426)

Yes with some exceptions:

1. To use it in a closed-sourced application you have to keep the Qt libraries dynamically linked and bundled with the application. The license is fine as long as it is dynamically linked.

Example: https://github.com/gitahead/gitahead Used to be closed-source and uses Qt5. Now it is open-source and is under the MIT license.

2. Static linking however requires you to either purchase a commercial license or you release your source under GPL-3.0 and then you can statically link your app.

No. 1 is probably what you are after.

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