Posted by thoth on 01/15/09 07:20:01 AM in Technology
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Nokia today announced that its Qt cross-platform User Interface (UI) and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 license from the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. Previously, Qt has been made available to the open source community under the General Public License (GPL) license.
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You can read the full release here [qtsoftware.com].
Until the announcement today Qt was available in GPL or a purchasable commercial license, mostly because Qt was the primary source of profit for Trolltech, the company who originally developed Qt, but since the software was acquired by Nokia with the purchase of Trolltech the need for Qt to be a revenue generator has diminished considerably. Qt is primarily used in the KDE desktop for Linux , and also happens to be the desktop I use. For those unaware starting with Qt 4.x they made it available to work directly in windows making it possible for software written with Qt to run in windows. I really like QT, KDE, and the applications developed with it, especially Amarok, which is by far the best desktop MP3 player in my opinion. I'm hoping this will help propel Qt and KDE farther into the limelight and encourage developers and companies to start using the Qt framework.
