maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - XCode iPhone $99 / QT commercial each platorm $3000

	SubCore	2009-12-11 , 14:47
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Originally Posted by kaz911

I would still vote for a $99 or $199,- commercial license that covers the mobile platforms. :-) I would rather go that way - than end up finding out we start something on LGPL - and then need to something that only the commercial license can provide for.

and what might that be?

the only "something" a commercial license is needed for is redistributing Qt changes without source code.

this should never be needed by most developers (or do you regularly modify the frameworks you're building upon?

)

by the way:
as far as i understand it, the commercial XCode IDE for 99$ (which actually is the "iPhone Developer Program fee") is comparable to the LGPL licensing scheme offered by Qt. you can create commercial applications and link dynamically to the system libraries.

but: Apple doesn't offer anything similar to the commercial Qt license, because Apple doesn't give you the possibility to change the underlying frameworks.

edit:
i take too long writing, others have already pointed all that out -.-

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