LGPL license for Qt 4.5

[Mike Driscoll]

On Jan 14, 8:20 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 3:11 pm, "drobi... at gmail.com" <drobi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 14, 7:57 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
>
> > > According to a Norwegian publication, Nokia will release Qt under LGPL
> > > as of version 4.5.
>
> > > If I had stocks in Riverbank Computing ltd., I would sell them now...
>
> > > For the rest of us, this is fantastic news.
>
> > >http://digi.no/php/art.php?id=800922
>
> >http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing
>
> > Not sure what this means for PyQt
>
> It means that:
> - If Riverbank keep their dual GPL licensing scheme, somebody else
> will make an LGPL 'QtPython' instead.
> - If Riverbank change PyQt to LGPL, they will loose most of their
> revenue form PyQt.
>
> In either case, Qt will be available under the same licensing terms as
> wxWidgets.
>
> As of today, the main reason to prefer wxPython over PyQt is the
> license. With an LGPL'd Qt, I'd rather ask what this will mean for
> wxPython.

I'm pretty sure that Qt is mostly (if not all) custom widgets whereas
wxPython uses native widgets whenever possible. While this allows Qt
to have skinning (a plus!), it also can make them look less than
native (a minus!).

If they do release a LGPL version, I may take a look at it just to see
how different it is, although I'm pretty happy with what I'm using.

Mike