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Camp KDE: Update on Qt open governance

Camp KDE: Update on Qt open governance

Posted Apr 7, 2011 9:27 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
Parent article: Camp KDE: Update on Qt open governance

Ownership of Qt by Nokia extends beyond just trademark despite that claim. Copyright license agreements give a lot more control to Nokia and make the barrier to entry higher if not impossible for a number of contributors. What would be ideal is for Nokia to move Qt to a non-profit foundation and create a vendor neutral zone. Nokia relicensing Qt to LGPL was a good move.

GTK still has the advantage of having a good number of vendors participating in the development including some funded by Nokia itself.


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