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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.'"
Qt will be under GPL3 AND GPL2! (As well as QPL for Qt/X11). Nothing has changed for you except that you have one new option. In addition, the license from Trolltech includes disclaimers for most common Open Source licenses.
Your worries are very mislaid.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
If they port Firefox to Qt, I might consider switching.
Until then, Gtk is the only toolkit that can run everything I need on a computer. I simply find stupid the idea of having two different installed toolkits on the same computer, so until Qt can run Firefox and, less importantly but still somewhat relevant, OpenOffice (KOffice might be a good alternative though) and Gimp (don't know any good one in Qt), I won't install it.
Although Konqueror is a good browser, it's still light-years behind Firefox. Firefox is my bread and butter nowadays, as I suspect it is for many others. I couldn't live with it, and as long as this is true, I couldn't be without Gtk either.