Qt is released under two different licenses: there's the open source release and the commercial release. Qt hasn't for a while distributed binaries for the ope

Qt is released under two different licenses: there's the open source release and the commercial release. Qt hasn't for a while distributed binaries for the open source release, but there were publicly downloadable binaries for the trial version of the commercial release which is what has now gone. But as you say, nothing stops _others_ from distributing binaries for the open source release.