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What will happen to KDE?
I was reading a discussion on qt vs gtk. and someone raise the question what will happen to KDE once trolltech is sold or bankrupted, and the reply he got was, in case of sold out or bankruptcy the latest version of qt will be released under BSD license. But how is that going to help KDE. Who is going to maintain qt then? KDE folks are responsible for maintaining and developing KDE not qt.
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Well, first of all, QT is already open source. And, frankly, you face the same problem with any application or library. What happens with the current gtk maintainers get tired of maintaining it? Someone else will continue the project. And, I'm quite sure, the same will happen with QT. That's the great thing about open source software.
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a) Some Big fish will buy it, google, sun.... and will continue to develop it b) someone will invent OpenQT c) KDE can be rewritten to use GTK (very, very, very hard, but possible) d) KDE will die, and there will be no more debates regarding Gnome vs KDE |
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EDIT from wikipedia: Compromises were sought between KDE and Trolltech whereby Qt would not be able to fall under a more restrictive license than the QPL, even if Trolltech was bought out or went bankrupt. This led to the creation of the KDE Free Qt foundation, which guarantees that Qt would fall under a BSD-style license should no free software/open source version of Qt be released during 12 months. Last edited by graudeejs; 30th October 2008 at 02:18 PM. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QPL:
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Qt remains GPL. Nokia is using it on a handful of their own platforms. |
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As long as you use the correct license for your development needs, it's a tad hard to get screwed with Qt; imho.... the only bad thing is the price of a commercial license. Other then that, it's mostly an idiot proof deal.
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