[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5 Clarification

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Tue Apr 28 21:39:43 CEST 2009


On 28.04.09 17:29:24, Richard Danter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just completed an install of Ubuntu 9.04 and was very happy to
> note that the version of Qt now included is 4.5.0.
> 
> I built a quick test app which included a help->about option and did not
> get the expected results. Sure enough it tells me I am using v4.5.0 but
> it tells me this is the Open Source Edition and all the usual things
> from previous versions about needing a commercial Qt license for non-OSS
> application development.
> 
> Until now I was under the impression 4.5 was lgpl.

LGPL and GPL. But QtSoftware forgot to update the about box text, I'm
guessing this will be fixed in 4.5.1 (didn't check). However what the
about box says isn't quite that important, the important parts are in
the LICENSE* files and the source files.

Andreas

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