"discussions on various internet forums" here probably means the KDE forums/mailing list. From the mailing list "During the past two years, there have been nego

"discussions on various internet forums" here probably means the KDE forums/mailing list. From the mailing list "During the past two years, there have been negotiations between The Qt Company and the KDE Free Qt Foundation for updating the contract.". More info: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h... There are talks in the mailing list about forking QT but KDE doesn't seems to want that currently due to lack of developers for maintaining a fork