Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem
by jordigh on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:19AM
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So they're back to selling exceptions again? I thought they had stopped when it was owned by Nokia.
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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem
by milliams on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:32AM
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The deal was that before Nokia Qt was GPL or commercial but after Nokia bought it they relicensed the open-source offering to LGPL. This obviously reduced the demand for the commercial version but there's still plenty of companies who would buy it for both license and support.
Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem
by navlelo on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:28AM
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The commercial business/licensing was sold off to Digia, which eventually bought the whole Qt division.
Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem
by jordigh on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:38AM
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Yes, I understand this, but Digia went back to GPL and back to selling GPL exceptions like Trolltech did originally?
Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem
by toyg on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:57AM
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Digia is doing the same thing Nokia did, which was the same thing Trolltech did. The only difference is that, since the Nokia takeover, the open source version is also available under LGPL. This has not changed under Digia.