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For anything-QT that is commercial you need pay and it's not cheap for small teams.


Is QtQuick commercial? No GPL version?


IANAL but if you're making commercial products you need pay for QT. You can use GPL etc if you're doing open source I assume.


Qt has both commercial and LGPL licenses. I think you can develop commercial applications with LGPL and not distributing the source code of your own app, but you can't statically link to Qt's libraries. https://www.qt.io/qt-licensing-terms/


IIRC some of the newer libraries are being licensed under GPL (unless you pay for a commercial license of course)


That's not correct. You can use the LGPL version of Qt to develop commercial product without paying for a license and while keeping your source proprietary. You aren't allowed to statically link Qt under LGPL, but that isn't a big deal.


Does the LGPL deal with the fact that you actually pull in a lot of Qt code in the form in header files into your actual compiled binary?


Yes, my understanding is that including headers is not a problem for LGPL. If it was, LGPL libraries would be useless.

Note that the LGPL version of Qt doesn't contain everything the commercial version does. But there isn't a lot missing.




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