Someone asked me my opinion on the licensing of Qt a couple of days ago; not that my opinion is worth that much but this is a relatively interesting change. On the face of it, moving to LGPL isn’t a major difference – obviously, it enables proprietary software to use the library without paying a commercial license, but the market for third-party applications on GNU/Linux is pretty slim. The relaxing/opening of the development process is much more important, assuming that it actually happens, although I imagine that won’t sink in for a little while yet either.

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