Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)

I think so too. I know I was one of the people who complained about the non-free:ness of QT
back in the day to the extent that I avoided KDE. But though I may wish that our platform
API:s where all licensed under LGPL, having QT under the GPL is not at all a problem for me.

I'm sure some of the people are still the same people who have simply decided to dislike KDE
(or get payed to dislike KDE), but I belive they are in a minority.