On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:22:53PM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:08:22PM CET, Frank Lanitz <[email protected]> 
> said:
> > Am 15.02.2011 15:02, schrieb [email protected]:
> > > 
> > > Tom H said;
> > > 
> > > It's not a Debian change but a split away from Oracle.
> > > 
> > > -------
> > > 
> > > Why? I was afraid Oracle was gonna screw up a bunch of Sun's open 
> > > projects, but they have been doing good as far as I have been able to 
> > > tell (the latest ver. of Virtual Box is awesome and yummy open source 
> > > goodness...
> > 
> > I'm afraid you missed a lot of news last weeks/month. MySQL, Solaris,
> > OpenOffice (which now became to Oracle OpenOffice)......
> 
> And now are fears for Qt...

There's no reason to fear for Qt. It's LGPL
<http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/14/qt-everywhere-45-be-relicensed-lgpl?page=2>,
and there's a poison pill
<http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php> where the
latest version of Qt is released under the BSD license if Nokia doesn't
keep developing it.

--Greg


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