What kind of license I can select about Qt Creator ?

**kichi** · 7th April 2010, 11:04

I had a opportunity to talk about Qt Creator with the people.
And I intend to make a plugin for Qt Creator someday.
Then, I noticed that I had not known about the licences of Qt Creator.
so, I came to want to know about it.

fatjuicymole, Lykurg, wysota
Thank you very much.

**wysota** · 7th April 2010, 17:19

The licence of Qt Creator is more or less irrelevant when it comes to developing plugins. You can link a commercial plugin against LGPL Creator without any violation.

**squidge** · 7th April 2010, 18:11

I thought LGPL only applied to libraries, and with Creator, there is no library, so it wasn't applicable.

What is the difference between GPL and LGPL on a program such as Creator?

**wysota** · 7th April 2010, 18:26

Originally Posted by fatjuicymole

I thought LGPL only applied to libraries,

That's not true. LGPL stands for "Lesser GPL", not "Library GPL". You can treat it as somewhat "relaxed" GPL.

Creator consists of mostly libraries, by the way. The core of the application is not much more than the main() function.

**kichi** · 8th April 2010, 04:55

Originally Posted by wysota

The licence of Qt Creator is more or less irrelevant when it comes to developing plugins. You can link a commercial plugin against LGPL Creator without any violation.

I had been intended to make a plugin of Qt Creator under the LGPL.
And I have decided to select LGPL.
Thank you for the information about the licence of Qt Creator.