On Sunday 29 July 2001 01:15 am, John (EBo) David wrote:
> > ... If you have a closed source project, then you
> > must use the Qt Professional license. This one costs money.
>
> Ok... how much, etc.
http://www.trolltech.com/products/purchase/pricing.html
Keep in mind whenever "commercial" is used, they are very specificially
talking about CLOSED-SOURCE. You can make money on your programs and still
use the GPL.
You might also want to see their Windows "non-commercial" license:
http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/noncommercial.html
> My questions are motivated by not only my current programming needs
> (which will be release in the public domain), but also for strategic
> skills planning. I do not want to spend all the time learning a bunch
> of new GUI's if I cannot use them commercially.
This is not a problem. As long as your software is free, you may use Qt for
free. When you close it off, you pay for Qt. Simple!
For a bit more info on this topic, check out the chapter I wrote on KDE/Qt
license issues for the KDE 2.0 Development book. It has a FAQ that I found
answers *most* normal questions:
http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?pgid=kde20develch19
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