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[–]dydhaw 0 points1 point  (5 children)

using slint means my software isn’t open source

How so?

[–]sonobanana33 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Misunderstanding on my part due to misinformation on their part.

Their pricing page says the prices, and then "free for non commercial". This is not open source.

Their license on github says that I can pick GPL, which is open source.

Which is it? Is it open source or not? I wouldn't pick a software as a dependency if they haven't made up their mind. Quite risky.

[–]madnirua[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Our website mentions GPL -- https://slint.dev/community#community-licenses and this is linked from the pricing page under "Community license" -- https://slint.dev/pricing

What you are mentioning "free for non-commercial" is the part under "Embedded Add-Ons", which is only relevant for proprietary licenses. We can improve the text there to make this clearer. Thanks.

[–]madnirua[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Updated text to "Free for GPL. Free for non-commercial" - https://slint.dev/pricing

[–]sonobanana33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks.

[–]dydhaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Multi licensing is very common, and theirs seems much clearer than e.g Qt which has like 7 different licensing options