LWN: Comments on "The Qt Project is about to launch"

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burchr — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:24:35 +0000

Qt does not have copyright assignment, it has copyright licensing. Nokia owns the copyright on the majority, given that it bought Trolltech (formerly the only copyright holder, sans third party code) and continues to contribute the majority of code contributions - but it doesn't own all copyright anymore.

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danieldk — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:01:43 +0000

It is good to see that Nokia is moving Qt towards independence!

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tajyrink — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:24:52 +0000

And not only accept patches, but give responsibilities to the area based on meritocracy.

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rdale — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:16:08 +0000

does this mean that the KDE Free Qt foundation has served its purpose and is disbanded?

No, the Free Qt Foundation serves a different purpose and it will continue as before. Nokia still owns Qt and holds the copyright, and the purpose of the Free Qt Foundation is to ensure that if the ownership or license changes, then KDE will be guaranteed to be able to use a Free toolkit. The Qt Project is about contributing to the code base, and not about these 'meta-licensing' issues.

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and — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:09:45 +0000

Well, to me it seems like Nokia won't push the widget based UIs anymore, but if someone else is interested in improving it, they are happy to accept patches. At least that's how I understood this post:

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/12/qt-modules-maturity-l...

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and — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:01:10 +0000

Quite possible. But since they changed the license to LGPL, there was not much point in this construct anyway, IMHO. (What's the point in releasing LGPL'ed code under BSD license? As I read the agreement, they cannot release the code Nokia would add to Qt after taking it proprietary; but I might have misinterpreted that.)

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danieldk — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:49:40 +0000

As a user of Qt, I am a bad worried about the 'Qt Quick is the future, traditional widgets are in maintenance mode'-direction that Qt has been heading in. Qt is used a lot (and very effectively) in building traditional desktop applications, while Nokia is primarily interested in fancy iOS-like interfaces using Quick.

I hope that open governance helps to restore the balance a bit. Though, I do realize that changes are made where time is invested.

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bangert — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:22:19 +0000

does this mean that the KDE Free Qt foundation has served its purpose and is disbanded?

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundatio...