[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“[Qt] doesn’t fit our licensing policies, not because it’s not
free, but for the same reason MySQL doesn’t–it’s putting the GPL
in a place where we would prefer to put the LGPL so that
proprietary development can take place without a commercial
license.“Troll Tech uses dual licensing as a revenue strategy. They have
a right to do so, and they are entirely within the ethos of the
free software community in doing so.“I already have a customer asking for Perens LLC to provide
commercial support for KDE on the UserLinux platform. And we will
do so, even though KDE is not the chosen GUI of the UserLinux
project…”