Thread: Engadget: Nokia sells Qt licensing and services to Digia
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slaapliedje is offline slaapliedje
2012-08-09 , 18:42
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#37
Originally Posted by specc View Post
Just because you are a hot head governed exclusively by bad feelings (and no reason) doesn't mean everybody else are. Business is business, choices has to be made. Qt didn't fit in. That is all there is to it. Besides, this is the best that could ever happened to qt. Now it is free to be used anywhere with no strings of any kind.
I'm confused on this. Digia is, and has been for quite some time, the Commercialized version of Qt. Now unless they start putting some of the commercial modules (read non-free for open source programmers) back into the mainline, then this is pretty much business as usual for them. I don't think they can take anything away from Qt, but it seems most of the mobile parts of the libraries are governed by non-GPL or non-LGPL licenses.

Someone from the Qt project I'm sure could tell it better, and more accurately.

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