Trolltech to Release Qt\/Mac Free Software Edition at WWDC 2003; Trolltech
\nBrings Its Successful Dual Licensing Business Model to the Mac<\/p>\n
OSLO, Norway–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003–Trolltech today announced
\nthat Qt(R)\/Mac will be released under the GPL (GNU General Public License)
\nat Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2003 in San Francisco on
\nJune 23rd.<\/p>\n
With the release of the Qt\/Mac Free Software Edition, the advantages of
\nQt’s dual licensing model are now taken to Mac OS X. Since it’s founding in
\n1994, Trolltech has successfully used a dual licensing business model,
\noffering both commercial and Free Software licensing options to developers.<\/p>\n
“Trolltech’s dual licensing strategy has been key to our success,” says
\nTrolltech CEO and co-founder, Haavard Nord. “We are now expanding this
\nstrategy to include the Mac. We estimate that there are over one hundred
\nthousand Qt developers in the Free Software community today. These free
\nsoftware developers receive a high quality tool, and in return, they
\nprovide Trolltech with valuable feedback on Qt.”<\/p>\n
Qt\/Mac is the Mac port of Qt — a single-source, multiplatform C++ GUI
\ntoolkit that allows applications to run natively on Windows, Linux\/Unix,
\nand Mac OS X, all from the same codebase.<\/p>\n
The GPL release of Qt\/Mac allows Mac free software developers to use Qt
\nfree of charge. Any software produced with the GPL version of Qt\/Mac (and
\nany derivatives of this software) must also be released with full source
\ncode available under the GPL. Developers who wish to create commercial
\n(proprietary or closed source) software can continue to do so using the
\nexisting Qt\/Mac commercial licenses.<\/p>\n
With the upcoming Qt\/Mac GPL release, thousands of existing Free Software
\napplications developed with Qt\/X11 (Linux and various flavors of Unix) and
\nQt\/Embedded (embedded Linux), can now be ported to the Mac OS X platform.
\nMost of these applications only require a simple recompile for Mac OS X.<\/p>\n
The release of Qt\/Mac under the GPL also means that Qt Script for
\nApplications (QSA), Trolltech’s new scripting toolkit for Qt-based
\napplications, will be available under a dual license on Mac OS X. More
\ninformation on QSA is available at www.trolltech.com\/qsa.<\/p>\n
Availability:<\/p>\n
The GPL version of Qt\/Mac will be made available for download from the
\nTrolltech website in connection with the WWDC 2003 (June 23rd-June 27th).<\/p>\n
About Trolltech<\/p>\n
Trolltech is a software company with two flagship products: Qt and Qtopia.
\nQt is a multi-platform C++ application framework developers can use to
\nwrite single-source applications that run — natively — on Windows, Linux,
\nUnix, Mac OS X and embedded Linux. Qt has been used to build thousands of
\nsuccessful commercial applications worldwide, and is the basis of the open
\nsource KDE desktop environment. Qtopia is the first comprehensive
\napplication environment built for embedded Linux, and is used in Sharp’s
\nnew Zaurus SL5500 and SL-A300 PDAs. Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo,
\nNorway, with offices in Brisbane, Australia, and Palo Alto, California.
\nMore about Trolltech can be found at www.trolltech.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trolltech to Release Qt\/Mac Free Software Edition at WWDC 2003; Trolltech
\nBrings Its Successful Dual Licensing Business Model to the Mac<\/p>\n
OSLO, Norway–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003–Trolltech today announced
\nthat Qt(R)\/Mac will be released under the GPL (GNU General Public License)
\nat Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2003 in San Francisco on
\nJune 23rd.<\/p>\n
With the release of the Qt\/Mac Free Software Edition, the advantages of
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