Qt to be LGPL!
A few months ago, I asked the question Why didn’t Nokia change Qt’s licensing model?
As it turns out, the reason was very simple: they just hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Yesterday it was announced that Qt 4.5 will be available under the LGPL.
I’ve been working on a project recently using Qt/C# and have been very happy with the combination. The bindings are called Qyoto, and available as part of the kde-bindings package. On Ubuntu, the Qt bindings alone are in a package called libqyoto4.4-cil (no KDE dependencies). The Qyoto developers have been fixing tons of bugs lately, so I’ve been building packages regularly from SVN and posting them to my PPA.
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jbablog.com | QT License to be changed from GPL to LGPL
[...] mentioned all over the internet, including here, QT (formerly owned by TrollTech and now owned by Nokia) is about to be relicensed as LGPL (lesser [...]
This is indeed an awesome thing. I have a project coming up soon that screams for Qt’s cross-platformitude. I can’t wait.
Why then http://www.qyoto.org is offline since some weeks?
I can’t find a project page of Qyoto. qyoto.org is down. is there any official web site out there?
Im amazed so few mono folk are getting excited about this. I expected lots of talk on the forums.
Looks like the quoto.org is dead, but the Quoto project is very much alive. I’m definitely interested in trying it out. http://n2.nabble.com/Qyoto-project-dead—td2148843.html
Looks like the quoto.org site is dead, but the Quoto project is very much alive. If it too adds LGPL, it will definitely be worth looking into.
http://n2.nabble.com/Qyoto-project-dead—td2148843.html