Trolltech / Nokia

From Qt homepage:

The name of the Qt Software division of Nokia has changed to Qt Development Frameworks, for reasons explained in the above post. The division's Twitter feed is to change to @qtbynokia.

Trolltech Labs Blogs » Qt cuter than before: 4.4.3

Version 4.4.3 of Qt, the cross-platform C++ application toolkit, has been released. This version solely consists of rebranding, revised copyright notices etc, as the Trolltech organisation has changed its name to Qt Software as a result of its acquisition by Nokia (full changelog here). Open-source downloads are available here. The former Trolltech website has also been revamped, although the trolltech.com domain name remains for the time being.

The European Commission today announced that it has unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech, and Nokia will now proceed with the offer, including the compulsory acquisition of all shares in the company. The shares will be acquired by Nokia's Norwegian subsidiary, Nokia Norge AS. See this page for coverage of the takeover from Trolltech, including downloadable letters to the open-source community, to Trolltech customers and to partners.

From Trolltech's website (and also here at Nokia's site):

Nokia and Trolltech ASA have agreed that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech; the offer is NOK 16 per share in cash, and holders of 35,024,830 shares (66.43% of the total) have irrevocably agreed to the sale; among those who have agreed are Haavard Nord (Trolltech founder), Vuonislahti Invest AS (controlled by founder Eirik Chambe-Eng), Teknoinvest and certain funds managed by Index Ventures. Nokia have said that they will continue releasing Qt on an open-source basis.

At KDE Dot News, Aaron Seigo notes that Nokia will also become a patron of KDE e.V. and the KDE Free Qt Foundation (which is licensed to release Qt under the BSD licence should Trolltech, or its successors, cease doing so under the GPL) and last week, Messrs Nord, Chambe-Eng and Lee Williams of Nokia wrote this letter to the KDE community asking "for ideas and comments on improving their relationship with the open source community".