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Trolltech Hosting Phonon backends in KDE subversion repository (KDE.News)

[Posted December 13, 2007 by cook]

KDE.News covers the release of the Phonon backends by Trolltech. "Trolltech announced today that the Phonon backends, which they have been developing for inclusion in Qt, are being transferred into the KDE source code repository. Phonon is the KDE 4 API for multimedia and is also set to be part of Qt 4.4, scheduled for the end of Q1 2008. You heard it right folks, a part of Qt will be officially hosted and developed inside KDE's very own Subversion repository, from whose loins Phonon first sprung, and be freely available to all under the LGPL."

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Posted Dec 13, 2007 21:52 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]

How are they going to handle the dual licensing issues?  Is the Qt distribution of Phonon
going to be LGPL only?

Trolltech Hosting Phonon backends in KDE subversion repository (KDE.News)

Posted Dec 13, 2007 22:37 UTC (Thu) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]

yes, Phonon and the various backends are all LGPL, so there's no need to 
dual licensing for these specific components.