[dot] Nokia Acquiring Trolltech

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From: Aaron Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>
Dept: norway-to-finland
Date: Monday 28/Jan/2008, @02:59

Nokia Acquiring Trolltech
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   Today, Nokia and Trolltech announced that Nokia will be purchasing
Trolltech [http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008].  Nokia will continue
with Qt's dual license model, which was updated to GPL 3 only last week
[http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/01/18/trolltech-to-adopt-gpl-3-for-qt].
In an open letter to KDE
[http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008-letter], the chief Trolls and
Nokia VP asked for ideas and comments on improving their relationship
with the open source community.  Nokia will be applying to become a
patron of KDE e.V. [http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php] and the
FreeQt [http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php] foundation
is being maintained to guarantee the continued freedom of the toolkit
KDE depends upon.  This change should help ensure both the continued
longevity of Qt and KDE as well as give the platform a boost in
industry, particularly in the consumer electronics industry.