Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Jan 2009 09:54 UTC, submitted by Almar
After Nokia purchsed Trolltech last year, doubts arose about how Nokia would handle the dual licensing model of Qt, the advanced cross-platform toolkit which lies at the base of the KDE Free software desktop. As it turns out, these doubts were unfounded, as Nokia today announced it's going to add the LGPL to Qt's licensing model, starting with Qt 4.5.
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2008-09-21
Well, even Microsoft got it with there "Software as a service" slogan. From that view it makes quit sense to free the underlying foundation and build special solutions (applications, (web-)services, hardware, etc.) on top of a standardized, common available, highly portable and free platform. Beside the LGPL'ing the opening of the developing process is another big boost that points to that direction. Just a matter of time other big and small(er) players will jump on and adopt to provide solutions based on Qt.
Edited 2009-01-15 07:57 UTC