Readers have been writing in that ZDNet is currently reporting on a rumoured KDE League that will go head-to-head with the GNOME Foundation. LinuxToday has picked up the story, including a link to a statement by Kurt Granroth. Well, it's nice to see that the press is so interested in KDE that they'll even report rumours or "the skinny" if they think they have it. ;-)

In an article posted on LinuxPlanet, Wichert Ackerman states that Debian will include KDE versions based on GPL'ed Qt. It seems everybody seems happy with Qt under GPL ;-)

Trolltech and Qt have been getting some good press and support lately. The latest good news includes a strategic alliance with Loki to develop Linux applications. The LinuxToday article is here and the full announce here. KDE is also potentially a big winner because it is quite easy for application developers to provide a KDE-enhanced version of a Qt app. Trolltech themselves have designed Qt Designer in this manner and have some clever ideas to offer in this department. In other Qt news, the much talked about Qt 2.2, including of course Qt Designer, has been released.

Dennis E. Powell at LinuxPlanet has a new article out. This time he writes about the recent events in KDE history, and also includes a bit about the guys from Helix Code. It's all good.

Evan Leibovitch @ZDNet writes an entertaining piece summing up the recent KDE/GNOME events in "It's the apps, stupid". Stephen Shankland @CNET writes about the Qt GPL announcement in "Barrier lowered between Linux interfaces". Rick Lehrbaum @ZDNet reports on the same in "Good news for KDE". Last, but certainly not least, the KDE 2.0 release schedule has been announced.

The opinion of RMS on the GPLing of Qt can be found on linuxtoday. For some readers comments, you can also go to slashdot.

Update: 09/06 12:15 AM by N: KDE officially responded, including a link to the code license audit in the response.

Update: 09/06 5:15 AM by R: A few KDE developers have now posted their personal opinions on the whole matter. Update: 09/11 10:24 AM by N: RMS clarifies in this response. Hopefully that's the end of this.

ITworld.com is currently running an interesting web interview by Joe Barr with core KDE developer, Kurt Granroth. Kurt talks about KDE2 vs KDE1, KOffice 1.0, KMail, and much more.

Trolltech has announced that Qt 2.2 will be released under the GPL! Read what LinuxPlanet/LinuxToday has to say about this here, ZDNet also reports, and an editorial by Matthias Ettrich and Eirik Eng here.

A new release of VisKProg, a visual programming language for KDE, was recently announced. Here are some sample screenshots. Seems pretty interesting, hope they port it to KDE 2.0 soon!

The KDE Core Team took a break from coding and wrote up an official response to the whole GNOME foundation thing. It wouldn't have been necessary if not for the endless questions and misinformation about the project ever since the original announcement.