[Joel_Mckay]

Mostly, 5.x broke many dependencies due to how the linking impacted license compliance issues. This meant users would be left to figure out why several features were turned off in the Debian package built.

I prefer wxwidgets, as its lgpl style license allows static-linking on both open or closed projects without submarine-IP-fees... undeniably useful when cross-porting to some platforms.

We may have differing opinions, as our use-cases likely differ. =3

[ranger_danger]

but both Qt and WX is LGPL ?

[Joel_Mckay]

wxwidgets is a slightly more permissive license than lgpl.

When people must static link on some closed mystery object, than the subtle difference becomes very important.

lgpl works great in the Linux .so design paradigm, but it can cause problems on rare occasion for porting. =3