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Re: Will the FreeQt foundation actually work?
by Sage on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @13:23

"you forget that they can change the license to whatever they want"

Actually, what I remembered is the following: (i) Qt for X is GPL and, due to the FreeQt agreement, has to remain that way; (ii) ports to Mac, Windows and FrameBuffer have been released under GPL; and (iii) even if these ports are no longer released under GPL in the future - i.e. the license on the other platforms changes - the past ports can be maintained (so you don't have to start from scratch).

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Re: Will the FreeQt foundation actually work?
by alzheimer on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @13:45

The thing is that you/we/KDE have/has to maintain it which is a huge effort and will _at least_ slow development down immensely. It's not like the guys at TT will quit their jobs to work on the free versions of Qt.

Let's wait and see. It's probably not going to happen today (if at all).

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