On: Qt Licensing Changes

[prewett]

This sounds really good! I don't understand why people would buy the commercial license, though, so I must be missing something. With the LGPL, it seems like you could have closed source and just provide a copy of Qt.

[taspeotis → prewett]

> I don't understand why people would buy the commercial license, though, so I must be missing something

The support. Same reason people pay for RHEL.

[distances → prewett]

Many possible reasons, from the top of my head

  * Static linking of closed source applications
  * Apple's app stores
  * Custom Qt modifications without need to release the changes
  * Qt for Device Creation
  * Support, supposedly with prioritized bugfixes