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FWIW if you bothered to check their website's language after Nokia (i think), Qt already had a confrontational relationship. It is just that they were slowly bu
by badsectoracula 7y ago
FWIW if you bothered to check their website's language after Nokia (i think), Qt already had a confrontational relationship. It is just that they were slowly building it up over time.
And really, ever since the Trolltech days, Qt was dragged into open source kicking and screaming.
- Morxo 7y agoIn the Trolltech days, Open Source Qt was GPL-only. And up until Qt 4, the Windows port was Commercial-only. Nokia introduced LGPL and open governance, simply because they were not interested in Qt as a commercial product, and The Qt Company is now trying to build a business around this. With huge companies like Tesla building their product around the free version of Qt without complying with the open source licenses, it is not that hard to see why they would look for ways to find out who their actual users are.