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[Jean-Marc.Decouleur@xxxxxxx (Jean-Marc.Decouleur@xxxxxxx)]

     Hi everybody !
     
     I'm a subscriber of the QT mailing list and I got today the following 
     announcement : next version of Qt will be Open Source !!
     
     GOOD NEWS !!  :-)
     
     Here is the announcement from Troll Tech :
     
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     TROLL TECH ANNOUNCES PLANS TO MAKE NEXT GENERATION OF Qt OPEN SOURCE 
     
     Troll Tech AS today announced that the Free Edition of Qt, its popular
     Graphical User Interface toolkit, will be released under an Open 
     Source
     license. With the new license, programmers will be able to distribute
     and share any modifications they make to the Qt Free Edition. The lack
     of such permission in the previous Free Edition license has been the
     source of some dispute in parts of the Linux community since KDE, the
     widely used Linux desktop environment, is based on Qt Free Edition.
     
     In early 1996, Troll Tech released the first Free Edition of its GUI
     toolkit, with full source code included, gratis to programmers of
     Open Source software. Earlier this year, Troll Tech initiated the KDE
     Free Qt Foundation to legally guarantee the continued availability of
     Free Editions of all new versions of Qt. Now, with this new license
     offering, Troll Tech is affirming its intention for Qt Free Edition to
     be a non-controversial option for development of Open Source software,
     and the best in its class as a application development framework.
     
     "I am very pleased that we have been able to overcome the final 
     obstacles
     to releasing the Qt Free Edition under an Open Source license" said 
     Eirik
     Eng, Co-President of Troll Tech. "The Open Source development model is
     showing sustained success, particularly in the Linux area."
     
     A draft version of the new license text, dubbed the QPL, is available
     at <A HREF="http://www.troll.no/qpl/";><A HREF="http://www.troll.no/qpl/</A">http://www.troll.no/qpl/</A</A>>. It will be first applied to the next 
     major
     release of the Qt Free Edition; version 2.0.
     
     "After reviewing the QPL, I find that it meets all the criteria to be
     considered Open Source," said Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral
     and the Bazaar paper and joint copyright holder of the Open Source
     trademark. "This license should allow Open Source software to compete
     on features and polish rather than ideological position, which will be
     better for the Open Source community."
     
     Linus Torvalds, father of Linux, is happy with the new license, 
     saying,
     "I am delighted to see that the Trolls have found a license that suits
     both them and the free software community. I hope this finally stops 
     the
     divisive license flaming that has been going on, so that we can all 
     get
     on with writing code."
     
     "Caldera Systems is very excited about Troll Tech's decision to 
     publish
     Qt under an Open Source license," said Ransom Love, President and
     CEO of Caldera Systems. "Customer response and feedback to the KDE
     desktop environment included in our OpenLinux 1.3 release has been
     overwhelming. Offering Qt under an Open Source license will allow KDE
     to stand on its technical merits without causing undue concerns to the
     development community over licensing terms."
     
     "SuSE congratulates Troll Tech for their wise decision to put Qt under
     an Open Source License. SuSE thinks that this step will (hopefully)
     unite the Linux community again," said Burchard Steinbild, Managing
     Director of S.u.S.E. GmbH.  "SuSE wishes Troll Tech much success with
     their products and hopes their reputation in the Linux community rises
     after this move, they have deserved it."
     
     Troll Tech continues full support for the Qt Professional Edition, for
     companies and developers not choosing the Open Source model. Software
     written for either of the official versions will remain completely
     compatible.
     
     Troll Tech AS is a computer software company, and has since 1994
     delivered high-quality and powerful multi-platform C++ software 
     libraries
     for graphical user interface development. Its flagship product Qt is
     currently used as the basis for a wide range of successful commercial
     and Open Source applications world wide. Troll Tech is located in 
     Oslo,
     Norway. Further information is available at <A HREF="http://www.troll.no";><A HREF="http://www.troll.no</A">http://www.troll.no</A</A>>, or by
     contacting info@xxxxxxxxx
     
     Open Source is a registered certification mark; 
     <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org";><A HREF="http://www.opensource.org</A">http://www.opensource.org</A</A>>.
     Qt is a trademark of Troll Tech AS.  Information about the KDE project
     is available at <A HREF="http://www.kde.org";><A HREF="http://www.kde.org</A">http://www.kde.org</A</A>>.  Information about Caldera 
     OpenLinux
     is available at <A HREF="http://www.caldera.com";><A HREF="http://www.caldera.com</A">http://www.caldera.com</A</A>>.  Information about SuSE Linux
     is available at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com";><A HREF="http://www.suse.com</A">http://www.suse.com</A</A>>.
     
       
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     ' Jean-Marc Decouleur
     ' jean-marc.decouleur@xxxxxxx
     ' linux user # 88810
     ' Linux *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends 
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