[maemo-developers] Qt to be available under the terms of the LGPL

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Lorn Potter <lpotter at trolltech.com> wrote:
> Benoît HERVIER wrote:
>> It was already in GPL 3 since january 2008. Maybe this explain that.
>
> Probably not. The decision to add the LGPL to Qt licenses was only made
> in the last few months of 2008.

I think Benoît's point was that the fuss on maemo-developers is small
because GPL was already an option; and most of the (vocal) people on
this list are open source developers anyway.

In terms of what it means for Maemo as a platform, well - it shows the
Nokia aren't going to just sit on Qt (as if we suspected they might)
and so it might give greater credence to the talk of Qt becoming
Nokia's Maemo toolkit of choice in future. But the community version's
here in Diablo, being pushed in Fremantle and Qt'll be core in
Harmattan; so the addition of LGPL doesn't really change anything
here, either.

I'm sure it's very exciting for OEMs like VMware to now have the
option of using Qt rather than GTK in their closed-source UIs. Perhaps
it's also now an option for Wayfinder. But these people had money, and
the option of a commercial licence anyway.

Am I missing something big? Please say I am :-)

Cheers,

Andrew

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