Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Jan 2008 22:33 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
Qt Breaking from the KDE 4.0 release event right now is word that Trolltech will be releasing Qt under the GPLv3 license. An official announcement will be made by Trolltech regarding this GPLv2 to GPLv3 license update on Monday, January 21, 2008. Additionally, KDE 4.1 is now planned for a July 2008 release.
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Whew
by leos on Fri 18th Jan 2008 22:57 UTC
leos
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Thank god. This enables KDE to switch to GPLv3, which means it can link to stuff like new version of Samba. I was afraid that if Trolltech didn't allow v3, it would shut KDE out of integrating with any GPL3 software.