Re: winforms for GUI?

Ben Collins <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:15:33 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:10:22AM -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > > I'd prefer to stay with open-source.  Qt is commercial:
> > > http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/pricing.html
> >
> > Qt is open source.
> 
> Then why does that link say I have to pay money to use it in a commercial
> app?   Did you go to the link?

It's open-source, and GPL. Which means you also have to be GPL in order
to use it. Just like you can't use GPL in closed source apps, same goes
with Qt, except that Trolltech will let you pay to do so (while most GPL
stuff wont let you pay).

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