[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5 Clarification

Richard Danter radanter at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 28 23:11:54 CEST 2009


On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:39 +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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.

That's great, thanks!
Rich


> 
> Andreas
> 
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