转自:
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/12/03/kde-free-qt-foundation-agreement-amended-to-cover-qt-for-android-port/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kde-free-qt-foundation-agreement-amended-to-cover-qt-for-android-portKDE Free Qt Foundation Agreement Amended to Cover Qt for Android PortPublished Tuesday December 3rd, 2013 | by
Tuukka Turunen The Qt for Android port is approaching a major milestone. Withthe final release of Qt 5.2, Android will become a Qt reference (Tier 1)configuration. The work with the Qt for Android port has been activelyongoing for the past year within the Qt Project, and before that, aspart of the Necessitas project hosted by KDE. The authors of
Necessitas contributed their work to the Qt Project in the autumn of 2012, which gave a tremendous boost to the developmentof the port. The dual licensing model of the Qt Project allows bothcommercial and open-source licensees to benefit from the possibility ofrunning Qt applications on Android devices.
I am very happy to announce that Digia and the
KDE Free Qt Foundationhave also included the Qt Android port into the KDE Free Qt FoundationAgreement. Via this agreement Android is treated similarly as the KDEWindow System. This agreement is the ultimate guarantee that Digia wantsto keep both commercial and open-source versions of Qt viable. Althoughthe money to keep Qt R&D ongoing comes from the paid versions ofQt, we believe that the best way to stay ahead and keep Qt as theleading cross-platform application and UI framework is to develop Qt inthe open.
I want to once more thank Mr. BogDan Vatra, Mr. Raymond Donnelly, andall the other pioneers who started the Qt for Android port in theNecessitas project, as well as everyone who has contributed to it withinthe Qt Project. Based on this work, millions of Android users will beable to enjoy the great applications developed with Qt.
Some background and thoughts on this are available
in blog post by BogDan.
