On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Lorn Potter <lpot...@trolltech.com> wrote: > Benoît HERVIER wrote: >> It was already in GPL 3 since january 2008. Maybe this explain that. > > Probably not. The decision to add the LGPL to Qt licenses was only made > in the last few months of 2008.
I think Benoît's point was that the fuss on maemo-developers is small because GPL was already an option; and most of the (vocal) people on this list are open source developers anyway. In terms of what it means for Maemo as a platform, well - it shows the Nokia aren't going to just sit on Qt (as if we suspected they might) and so it might give greater credence to the talk of Qt becoming Nokia's Maemo toolkit of choice in future. But the community version's here in Diablo, being pushed in Fremantle and Qt'll be core in Harmattan; so the addition of LGPL doesn't really change anything here, either. I'm sure it's very exciting for OEMs like VMware to now have the option of using Qt rather than GTK in their closed-source UIs. Perhaps it's also now an option for Wayfinder. But these people had money, and the option of a commercial licence anyway. Am I missing something big? Please say I am :-) Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
