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Re: WTF
by Richard Van Den Boom on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @06:04
If licensing was an issue, I'm not sure Nokia would have left TT switch to GPL3 one week before the buyout annoucement.
You're aware, of course, that this type of buyout takes months of discussion, and it's usually not a good idea to cross your buyer?
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Re: WTF
by doesn't matter on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @06:18
Why the would they care about the license? They could change it to whatever they want with the next version.
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  • Re: WTF
    by Mithrandir on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @07:04
    Yeah, they can change but once Qt is GPLv3 it can not be revoked and that version can be forked by others.
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    by Ben on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @07:05
    Even ignoreing the poison pill, this verson is GPLv3 and that can't be revoked
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  • Re: WTF
    by André on Monday 28/Jan/2008, @07:09
    Because by terms of the agreement with the Free-Qt-Foundation, the latter can basically throw the whole codebase on the street for everybody to use as they see fit under a BSD-style licence. You'd risk throwing away a rather large portion of Trolltech's capital in the form of intellectual property.
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