Re: gEDA: SPICE GUI

[Dale E Martin <dmartin@cliftonlabs.com>]

> You're right...  Qt is GPL'd, just like most of our code.  But, in
> addition, they let commercial companies use it for a fee.  That seems
> reasonable to me.  In comparison, wxWidgets is basically free for use
> either in commercial software or GPL'd software.

I believe the issue with QT is that it is GPLed on Linux, but it's only
available under a proprietary license for Windows -- other than a fairly
old version.  See the FAQ for more info:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/faq.html

So if you don't like the GPL, QT is not a good choice no matter what the
platform.  If you would like Windows compatibility and you don't want to
pay for QT, then QT is not a good choice either.

On the other hand, wxWidgets maps onto GTK which I don't think looks nearly
as nice as QT.  And QT is supposed to be very very easy to develop with.
KDE (which uses QT) has a fairly capable IDE environment from what I
understand.  I don't know anything about wxWidgets in this regard, and last
time I looked at GTK (a long time ago) I thought that the API was fairly
ugly.  Hopefully it has improved since then.

In my mind there is no one solution that's going to work for everyone.
Just tossing in my $0.02.

Later,
	Dale
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Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc.
Senior Computer Engineer
dmartin@cliftonlabs.com
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