Thread: What exactly is Meego ? Openness, synergies, etc.
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2010-03-25 , 13:55
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
But with opening up Qt, Symbian and now MeeGo, they now seem to have a much more open attitude in general.
Not picking on anyone specifically, but I see this myth going around a lot lately. Nokia didn't open Qt, Trolltech did. After a long and controversial/convoluted history, Qt 4.0 was licenced under the GPLv2 back in 2005, and then they added GPLv3 in 2008 (just a few days before the Nokia acquisition was announced).

Nokia just added LGPLv2.1 (note: not v3!) so it can be used for closed-source apps without royalties. GPLv3 and commercial licences are still available.
 

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