[NTLUG:Discuss] Nokia buys Trolltech

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Mon Jan 28 13:41:52 CST 2008


Greg Edwards wrote:
...
> I don't see where Nokia could kill Qt since it's already out there as
> GPL.  I'm sure that the KDE team has 1 or 2 copies.  Even if Nokia
> decided not to take it forward, KDE is too dependent on it to let it
> die.
> 

Well.. kill being relative.  If no more development is done, it doesn't
matter if it's GPL or not.  Though GPL does at least protect it so that
somebody CAN pick up the ball.



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