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Qt being now released under LGPL, would you recommend it over wxWidgets?

Asked 2009-01-21T08:40:58.193
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I am quite a heavy user of wxWidgets, partly because of licensing reasons.

  • How do you see the future of wxWidgets in prospect of the recent announcement of Qt now being released under LGPL?
  • Do you think wxwidget is still a good technical choice for new projects ? Or would you recommand adopting Qt, because it is going to be a de-facto standard.
  • I am also interested about the possible implications this will have on their bindings with the most common scripting languages (e.g. PyQt, wxPython, wxRuby). Why PyQt is so under-used when it has a professional grade designer and wxPython not?

Related:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/443546/qt-goes-lgpl-on-windows-is-it-good-enough-to-use-instead-of-mfc

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Please note that, as of Jan 2009, while Qt 4.5 was to be available under LGPL, Riverbank Computing hadn't made any announcement about licensing for future versions of PyQt. PyQt is still only commercial/GPLv2/GPLv3.

As noted in comments for this answer, Nokia announced the LGPL-licensed PySide project in August 2009.

answered 2009-01-21T12:57:50.827

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