John Stoneham wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 5:25 AM, Ales Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Qt4 cannot be "closed". Development can be stopped from the
Trolltech/Nokia side, but the GPL v4 which was released will remain.
Moreover, the foundation has rights to continue Qt development "should
Trolltech be bought".
Yes that can happen, but Commercial firms are getting nervous about the growth
of the Open Source Movement.
Sun did acquire MySql.
IBM developed Open Office further with their Lotus Symphony.
So Open Source is a Winner :-D
Right, this is what I meant by a fork (although that might not be the
right word), and this is what I think will happen. I don't doubt that
the KDE/Qt foundation that was formed some time ago will make sure
that the current version of Qt continues to be developed so that KDE
will live on. However, I doubt very seriously that Qt in its current
GPL form will continue to be developed by Trolltech.
I may be wrong, but I don't believe for a minute that Nokia is going
to want to be developing software for their phones and proprietary
platforms that has to be released under the GPL, and they will close
that hole very quickly.
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