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The text that appears in the link says: 'QCAD is a free, open source application for computer aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions...'

Would you be able to explain the difference between what you say and what QCAD themselves say?

The actual pricing structure is given here: QCAD - Shop The paragraph headed 'license' is particularlty important.
QCAD began life as open source but the developers decided to commercialise it for later versions. People were understandably miffed and forked the last open source version to form LibreCAD.
 
QCAD began life as open source but the developers decided to commercialise it for later versions. People were understandably miffed and forked the last open source version to form LibreCAD.
You learn more every day. This from the LibreCADwiki.

LibreCAD (originally CADuntu) is a free and open-source 2D CAD application, which uses Qt (a cross-platform application framework). The project started around 2010 as a fork of QCAD 2.0. 5.0. Support for reading DWG files was added with libdxfrw.

I've used LibreCAD for years but never knew.
 
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