Submitted by admin on Wed, 2009-01-14 16:25
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Qt Software has announced that Qt is to be released under the LGPL from version 4.5 onwards. The reason is that Nokia is not as reliant on the income from Qt commercial licences as Trolltech was. Nokia will still release Qt under GPL 3 and commercial licences, however. Also see Heise Online with reactions from Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) and Joe Miller (Second Life), Qt Labs blog and the new licensing FAQ, and several recent blog posts by KDE developers. The licensing change affects Qt Creator and the bundled Qt developer tools, but not Qt Extended, i.e. the embedded platform. Qt 4.5 is expected to be released in March.