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hacker_homietoday at 12:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

Because it's the most popular & flexible cross platform user space compositor:

- unlike QT it's free for commercial use.

- I don't know any other user land GUI toolkit/compositor that isn't a game engine(unity/unreal/etc).


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mkltoday at 12:45 AM

Qt is LGPL, so free for commercial use in most situations.

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WD-42today at 12:19 AM

Why does it need to be cross platform? If code was free there would be a native app for each platform using its respective toolkit, not QT.

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