For some reason, Philip Hess's message couldn't be delivered to the
mailling list, so I am posting for him:
Felipe,
For some reason any message I send to the Lazarus mail list never gets
posted, so I'm sending my comments to you directly.
I looked at the TrollTech FAQs you refer to last spring when I started
working on compiling Den's Qt interface library for OS X. It does raise
some questions about whether a commercial license is ever possible.
For example, say you've developed a non-open source app with Lazarus and
it works fine with win32 and gtk and you're considering getting a Qt
commercial license so that the app looks its best on Linux and OS X. Is
it already too late since the app has already been developed? If not,
what if you've already tested it (simply compiled it with the Qt
widgetset) against the open source Qt libraries in order to decide
(i.e., persuade your boss) that it's worth purchasing a commercial
license? Is it too late since you've already "developed" the app with
the open source version in some sense?
At the time I concluded that the Qt widgetset probably wouldn't be the
best choice for non-open source apps simply because of these questions
(never mind the high cost of $US2000 per platform per developer).
However, there are a lot of open source apps that could benefit from
using the Qt widgetset, so I figured the effort would still be worth it.
I hope you don't feel like your efforts have been wasted. I certainly
don't think they have been wasted and don't think my own modest efforts
have been in vain either.
Feel free to post these comments if you want to the Lazarus mail list.
Like I said, nothing I've ever sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
has ever been posted so I didn't figure there was much point in sending
them there.
Thanks.
-Phil
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