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Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt
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.'"
This has really taken away my final doubts about using qt-toolkit.
As silly as it might sound, I always have a certain level of suspicion when a company doesn't release their stuff under a gpl license .
This truly makes qt and OPEN platform, and as far as I'm concerned gives a green light to using it inside my company.
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
...Will Redhat or Ubuntu bite KDE coded using the latest QT? I doubt it myself as I know GPL v3 appears to take more freedom away from developers.
Can Cmdrtaco please ban these people?
Free speech you don't like is still free speech.
It's all or nothing.
Gone!
Free speech issues are about governments making laws to curtail citizens' freedom of expression.
Slashdot is not a government. It is a privately-owned, for-profit site.
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There is no good reason not to ban those neo-Nazi pieces of shit.
Does Slashdot contract them out for the comments section or something?