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points by ogoffart 1 day ago | 0 comments
Slint is under multiple license, including the open-source GPL and a royalty free license. What specifically bothers you about the licensing? (I work on Slint, genuinely curious)
[–] satvikpendem 1 day ago
Probably that it's not non copy left like MIT so they can't just use it without sharing code back.
[–] ogoffart 1 day ago
But they even can. (royalty-free license)
[–] satvikpendem 17 hours ago
For free without paying, like the other GUI frameworks.
[–] tensor 15 hours ago
Correct. This is a class of products that I really would rather not go commercial for. It's extremely difficult to change after the fact so from a business standpoint it puts us in a place where if the vendor decides to start cranking prices or they sell their business and the new owner does, then we are in a really difficult position.

It's not actually about paying money or not, I've signed up for many a patreon or what not to support open source projects I use. I fully believe in paying people for software. But for core things like this I do prefer MIT/APACHE.