[VPM] fyi, Qt adopts GPLv3 as license option

Darren Duncan darren at DarrenDuncan.net
Fri Jan 18 20:40:19 PST 2008


FYI, Trolltech just announced today that they're now licensing Qt 
under the GPLv3.  This is in addition to remaining under the licenses 
it was under before.

See 
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-18.1601592972 
for the announcement.

This is very welcome news for the large community of developers and 
free software users.

Qt is used by a lot of projects, and those which want to combine QT 
with other code licensed under the GPLv3 have been unable to before; 
now they are compatible, opening the door to more work coming out 
under the preferred license of some developers, or coming out at all.

That includes KDE, as a large example.

-- Darren Duncan


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