Re: GTK and Qt comparison?

[Sascha Ziemann <szi aibon ping de>]

Ronan BOURLIER <ronan@radioss.com> writes:

| Regarding the GPL license, can I develop a commercial application
| based on GTK ? And if I can, is there any special requirement ?

Gtk stands under the LGPL. It is a bit different from the GPL.

The GPL requires that all parts of the program (also shared libs) are
under the GPL. The only exeption is the operating system clause. This
is reason why the license of KDE is illegal.

The LGPL does not require the same license for the whole program. That
is the reason why most libraries are LGPL code. You can use LGPL code
in which program you want. You can use it even in a proprietary
program.

| I look at www.gnu.org but nothing really clear.

You can ask rms@gnu.org

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