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The move to LGPL licensing will provide open source and commercial developers with more permissive licensing than GPL and so increase flexibility for developers. In addition, Qt source code repositories will be made publicly available and will encourage contributions from desktop and embedded developer communities. With these changes, developers will be able to actively drive the evolution of the Qt framework.
Qt 4.5 will also be available under commercial licensing terms, while licensing for previous versions of Qt remains unchanged. In addition, service offerings for Qt will be expanded to ensure that all Qt development projects can have access to the same levels of support, independent of the selected license.
"Broader use of Qt by even more leading companies will result in valuable
feedback and increased contributions, ensuring that Qt remains the
best-in-class, cross-platform UI and application framework. The accelerated
development of Qt will allow developers, including Nokia, to deliver better
devices and applications, reduce time to market and enable a wider deployment
base for their solutions," said
"Nokia is making significant contributions to open source communities through ongoing work with Qt, its contribution of Symbian OS and S60 to the Symbian Foundation and open development of the Maemo platform," said Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President, Devices, Nokia. "By moving to LGPL, opening Qt's source code repositories and encouraging more contributions, Qt users will have more of a stake in the development of Qt, which will in turn encourage wider adoption. Nokia will be able to leverage improvements in Qt across S60 on Symbian OS, Maemo and OVI services without rewriting the source code."
"Combining Nokia's OS-independent Qt application framework with
Freescale's enablement software offers OEMs and applications developers a
unique freedom of choice in selecting the most appropriate Freescale chipset
while allowing the developer to develop and maintain a single code base of
their application," says
"Qt is used extensively in Kubuntu and KDE applications, and Canonical is
delighted to see this breakthrough in its licensing model," said
"We applaud Nokia's move to simplify the licensing of Qt," said
"Qt being available under the terms of the LGPL streamlines the licensing
of applications built using KDE components on top of Qt-based applications,"
said
About Qt
Qt is a cross-platform application framework. Using Qt, you can develop
applications and user interfaces once, and deploy them across many desktop
and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. Qt
Software, formerly Trolltech, was acquired by Nokia in
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
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SOURCE Nokia Corporation