{"id":24,"date":"2009-01-18T19:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-01-18T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T19:11:25","slug":"qt-45-now-lgpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/qt-45-now-lgpl\/","title":{"rendered":"qt 4.5 now lgpl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some excellent news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qtsoftware.com\/about\/licensing\" target=\"_blank\">Qt is soon to be released under the LGPL<\/a>.  Long story short, this means you can now use Qt for commercial projects (provided you&#8217;re careful and understand how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/old-licenses\/lgpl-2.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">LGPL 2.1<\/a> and provided you don&#8217;t modify the Qt libraries) without paying the old $4995US fee.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re still providing the &#8220;commercial&#8221; release for people who want to pay for it.  I suppose in some circumstances companies might need it, depending on what other code they need to interface with, but for the majority of new projects the LGPL license is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d always shied away from Qt in the past because as good as it is, the licensing was too restrictive for some of the things I wanted to do.  But combine this news with the fact that Qt 4.5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qtsoftware.com\/about\/news\/qt-4.5-beta-previews-64-bit-on-mac\" target=\"_blank\">will support 64-bit Cocoa<\/a> for app creation and I&#8217;m already planning on using it for my next personal project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some excellent news: Qt is soon to be released under the LGPL. Long story short, this means you can now use Qt for commercial projects (provided you&#8217;re careful and understand how the LGPL 2.1 and provided you don&#8217;t modify the Qt libraries) without paying the old $4995US fee. They&#8217;re still providing the &#8220;commercial&#8221; release for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}