alt Hacker NewsQt is terrible. Since a couple of years they want a login just to download the code required for a build and I really have zero desire to get a bunch of marketeers that are wondering if I'm ripe for the plucking yet just because I've decided to fix some bugs in open source code.
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ranger_danger • last Friday at 10:40 PM
IMO Qt is amazing. No login is technically required to download anything, especially code.
The official SDK installer GUI does require a login, but you don't have to use it in order to download or use Qt at all.
Not only can you download all the individual components that the GUI fetches via download.qt.io yourself, there's also third-party installers like aqtinstall, as well as many different OS package managers that provide Qt binaries.
They do require a login to download precompiled binaries, but what self-respecting Hacker News reader wants those?!
Ok, I'll admit, I've done it. And yes, I received Qt marketing at that email alias for a while, but they've stopped.
And remember, Qt has an LPGL license too, not just Commercial and GPL.
EDIT: Ah, ranger_danger pointed out that https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.10/ hosts binaries with no login required as well!