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Re:Qt and Open Source by Nokinside on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:05AM (#22821393)
Qt Company can't wiggle out from the contract it has with KDE. It must release Qt as open source withing 12 months. Qt stays open source.

The negotiations and uncertainty are related to all extra cooperation above that.

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Re:Qt and Open Source by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:24PM (#22827367)
12 months is fairly close to an eternity in software, though; that's a pretty big catch
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Re:Qt and Open Source by pfranz on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:00PM (#22828092)
Yeah. I can't imagine KDE using Qt if there's a 12 month turnaround (and they don't have final word of what goes into a release). I would think they'd have to fork and hopefully merge on release.
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