Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 18, 2008 @03:37PM from the for-making-cute-software dept.

Funkmaster F writes "At the KDE Developer Conference today, Trolltech CEO Havaard Nord announced that its Qt application development toolkit will be released under GPL 3. 'Here at the KDE release event, Nord's announcement was met with applause. Like Trolltech's initial decision to move from its own QPL license to the GPL, this announcement and the company's more recent decision to adopt the GPL for all platforms rather than just Linux, demonstrate the company's ongoing commitment to openness.'"

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Re:I am not applauding. by Howitzer86 · 2008-01-18 20:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I thought it was about the freedom for hobbyist programmers. The usual end user isn't going to fret over the closed state of a printer driver or similar program. The usual end user is about finding entertainment or getting a task done. GPL sucks at entertaining people, and GPL productivity programs usually tend to be second best to their closed source counter parts.

I'm going to get modded down and I don't care. I'm not a coward.