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> QT used to, the source in escrow, to be released under GPL or BSD if a nominated independent person decides the software is ever "abandoned". Wow, interestin
by i336_ 10y ago
> QT used to, the source in escrow, to be released under GPL or BSD if a nominated independent person decides the software is ever "abandoned".
Wow, interesting. I was aware of Qt's early history of being fully closed, but I didn't know it was in escrow like that. Link from wikipedia:
https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqt_announcement.php https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqt_announceme...
Here's an example of another non-OSS program with source under escrow: https://fman.io/blog/transparency/#open-source-promise https://fman.io/blog/transparency/#open-source-promise