QT 4.5 as LGPL

Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (Programming, Software)

qt-logoIf you haven’t heard yet, there is good news on the application development platform front. Recently Qt Software, owned by Nokia, announced that the next version of their flagship product, QT 4.5, will be distributed under the LGPL. Prior to this announcement, the platform was free for open source use, while the price of a license for developing a commercial application was in the thousands. This means great things for not only the development platform, but also for the developers seeking to build applications running on multiple operating systems, or even embedded devices.

You can see QT in commercial use by major companies like Google (Google Earth Pro), Netflix (Roku player), and even Adobe (Adobe Elements). It currently supports two languages: C++ and Java, and has an Eclipse plugin for both languages. If you want your new concept or production app to reach audiences on Windows, Linux, and Mac, you may want to consider QT as your platform. You can grab the current 4.5 beta here. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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Ray Gomez - who has written 46 posts on kallasoft.

Ray, a Linux and Unix nut, spends a majority of his daily ritual programming and testing for Big Blue. In his free time he manages to tweak the currently running thinkpad+KDE4 (WHOA) setup, read, and he occasionally gets out of the fluorescent lights to play roller hockey.

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