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KDE News: KDE League, libQuotient, and Qt Commercial Licence

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 07, 2023

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KDE e.V. to wind down the KDE League

↺ KDE e.V. to wind down the KDE League

> KDE e.V. makes it known that the KDE League is to be wound down and dissolved. Remaining assets of the League are to be transferred to KDE e.V. Interested parties are invited to comment.

> KDE e.V., the legal entity representing the KDE community, and KDE League, Inc. (the “League”) are about to enter into an agreement to wind down and dissolve the League and transfer all of its remaining liquid assets (after paying the costs of dissolution) to KDE e.V.

libQuotient version 0.8 released

↺ libQuotient version 0.8 released

> I'm excited to announce the release of version 0.8 of libQuotient, the Qt library for building software using Matrix.

↺ Matrix

↺ Matrix

↺ quotient-im.github.io/libQuotient/

Qt Commercial License

↺ Qt Commercial License

> It should be said occasionally: the Qt Commercial License is terrible.

> It might not be all that expensive, but it’s rather clunky for device creation, and most importantly, comes with a “Prohibited Combination” definition that says “any effort to use .. Licensed Software with any software created with .. Open Source Qt”. I certainly can’t interpret that in any other way than “there is a tremendous amount of valuable Open Source software, developed entirely independently, like KDE Frameworks, Kirigami, libQuotient, .. and you can’t use it.” It really drives home the negative value of a Qt Commercial License. – Which is why I’m glad I care only about the Open Source bits.

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