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There is Lazarus, which is an open source Delphi clone based on Free Pascal. Haven't tried it yet though. But the file manager I use daily (https://github.com/doublecmd/doublecmd) is written in it, and I have some ideas for improving it, so maybe I will try to compile that project for good old time's sake...
I can't add much to this really.
The bottom line is if you develop FOSS you have to continuously run on the Qt version treadmill to get bug-fixes (patch versions). This isn't ideal as Qt are notoriously for introducing bugs in new minor versions.
This has lead the KDE foundation to create a surprisingly active fork of Qt 5.15:
https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qtbase/-/commits/kde/5.15
which is now the default Qt 5 base package on Arch Linux:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages...
> I've already said elsewhere that having read their licensing terms and limits on what parts and how it can be used I would not touch QT with the wooden pole.
the licensing terms are the LGPL or GPL.
- https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/dev/LICENSE.GPL3
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