Nokia is pleased to announce that with the release of Qt 4.5 you will be able to use Qt under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 terms. When released in March 2009, Qt will be made available under three licensing options: Commercial, LGPL and GPL. Prior versions of Qt are not impacted by this announcement.
Nokia is committed to Qt and its continued development. By offering Qt under LGPL version 2.1 license terms alongside today’s licensing options Nokia hopes to:
- facilitate wider adoption of Qt across industries, desktop, web and embedded platforms. - establish Qt as a de facto standard for application development. - receive more valuable feedback and increased user contributions to ensure that Qt remains the best-in-class, cross-platform framework. - extend Nokia’s existing platform commitment to the open source community.
By offering a cost-free LGPL license as well as commercial and GPL licenses to Qt, you can choose the license model that best fits your development requirements.
Irrespective of which license model you choose:
- Qt Software is committed to continuing to provide our customers with the same level of professional support, services and regular releases you have come to expect of Qt Software. - We will continue to actively develop Qt, and with a greater degree of cooperation with the community through a new contribution model, we hope to make Qt even more valuable to our users.
For more information on the introduction of the LGPL license and what this means for you, please consult the Frequently Asked Questions section on www.qtsoftware.com.