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Isn't it the case that the KDE foundation can basically just yank away Qt for any reason they see fit? Seems like the Qt company would be playing a dangerous game there


No. Only if the Qt Company violates the terms of the agreement.


Right, seems like I misremembered this part:

>The foundation will control the rights to the Qt Free Edition and ensure that current and future releases of Qt will be available for free software development at all times. All changes to the Qt Free Edition license will have to be approved by the KDE Free Qt Foundation which will consist of two members of Troll Tech AS as well as two members of the KDE project. One of the representatives of the KDE project will have a double vote to be used in case of a tie.

so they have full control (majority of the votes) over approving license changes but I guess that doesn't mean they can enact them on their own

https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqt_announcement/




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