[Interest] QML vs Electron

Jean-Michaël Celerier jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 14:50:49 CEST 2018


LGPL has not been a problem on app stores for a long time. There are plenty
of GPLv3 apps on the ios store, such as Dash for instance:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-offline-api-docs/id1239167694?mt=8&pt=11l8808&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

See also https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/6495/4349

Best,

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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name


On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 1:09 PM Vlad Stelmahovsky <vladstelmahovsky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It seems Qt suffers from misunderstanding/misinformation and this is pure
> Qt Company's fault
> And yes, 100$/mo a bit too expensive for startupers, something like
> 25-30$/mo sounds more reasonable
> Also, it would be nice to get clear FAQ what developers can and what they
> cannot do under LGPL license with Qt
>
> br,
> Vlad
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:23 AM ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 06.08.18 um 23:46 schrieb Sylvain Pointeau:
>>
>> I fully agree with you. I am fully convinced by Qt, I wanted to go with
>> Qt, but the price was too high.
>> On the website, it is not said anywhere the price for a startup.
>>
>> yes - it's something "hidden" - here's the original Qt Blog about startup
>> license:
>>
>> http://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/03/08/qt-start-ups-awesome/
>>
>> current prices are 99 $ / Month or 79 $ if payed per year
>>
>> On this page https://www1.qt.io/start-up-plan/ hit "Apply Now"
>>
>> Fill it out, explain your situation and submit
>>
>> Then you'll get an answer by sales if you fit into the program
>>
>> I understood it gave only the right to develop until the go live (like an
>> extended demo version).
>>
>> has nothing to do with "go live" - is valid as long as you are a small
>> company / indiependent dev
>> ... from the website:
>>
>> *"What’s the catch? No catch and no strings attached. The extended
>> evaluation period contains all the same technical features as our
>> commercial licenses do. *
>>
>> *The extended evaluation period is available for companies with an annual
>> revenue of less than $100.000"*
>>
>>
>> try it out - perhaps it will help you to grow with Qt
>>
>> and: as Maurice wrote: there are NO runtime-royalties for mobile
>> Application Development
>>
>> ekke
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> Vlad
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