multi-platform GUI choice

[Rick Russell]

Kurt, 

Would you recommend this book if someone wanted to start developing for KDE?

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On Sunday 29 July 2001 01:04 pm, you wrote:
> 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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