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by coredog64 2240 days ago
Wasn’t there some big kerfuffle years ago involving KDE, Qt, and licensing?
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yes; and again about 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821050

There was.
Correct. A few more details:

>[...] To show our commitment to this dual licensing model, the KDE Free Qt Foundation was founded in 1998. It is a non-profit foundation ensuring that Qt will always be available under open source licensing terms. The agreement that governs this foundation has stayed mainly unchanged over the last 17 years. As a lot of things have changed during these years, we have been working with KDE over the last year to create a new and updated agreement that takes todays realities better into account.[...]

From: https://www.qt.io/blog/2016/01/13/new-agreement-with-the-kde...

The updated contract mentioned in that blog post is available here: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...

You could look it up on Wikipedia. KDE and Qt are Free Software.