Re:Qt and Open Source
by jcelerier on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:34AM
(#22821542)
> While the core product is LGPLv3+Commercial, most of their extensions are GPLv3+Commercial which makes them not suitable for a lot of apps.
this is FUD - the immense majority of Qt is under LGPL. You can build literally entire OSes out of the LGPL parts.
The only strictly GPL parts are (from this page https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmodules.html) :
- Qt Charts
- Qt Data Visualization
- Qt Network Authorization
- Qt Virtual Keyboard
- Qt for WebAssembly
- Qt Quick WebGL
All the widgets, qt quick, etc... stuff is available under LGPL.
Re:Qt and Open Source
by oefrha on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:42AM
(#22821590)
Yeah, can't find another cross-platform UI library with Qt's selection of (permissive license-compatible) widgets. Other UI libraries tend to look like crap (at least on macOS), too.
this is FUD - the immense majority of Qt is under LGPL. You can build literally entire OSes out of the LGPL parts.
The only strictly GPL parts are (from this page https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmodules.html) : - Qt Charts - Qt Data Visualization - Qt Network Authorization - Qt Virtual Keyboard - Qt for WebAssembly - Qt Quick WebGL
All the widgets, qt quick, etc... stuff is available under LGPL.