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Phew, for a moment I thought that they will be focusing only on enterprise licenses and make Qt closed-source (which would probably be a suicide).



note

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...

> The Foundation has a license agreement with Digia and Nokia. This agreement ensures that the Qt will continue to be available under both the LGPL 2.1 and the GPL 3. Should Digia discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under these licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.


Amazing, I did not know this (and I use KDE). Thanks.


It would be suicide and it would also be impossible due to the agreement with the KDE Free Qt Foundation (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...).




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