Re: [Hampshire] untended consequences of Nokia buyout
QT was sold to Digia some time ago. See link below. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/australian-technology/nokia-sells-qt-to-digia/ Tim B. Sent from Samsung Mobile Original message From: Joseph Bennie Date: To: General Linux/Unix community List ,"hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk User Group" Subject: [Hampshire] untended consequences of Nokia buyout hi all while dabbling this morning with some app prototyping I opened the QT Studio tools and the following thought ran through my head "Nokia owns QT -> microsoft just bought Nokia and most of their patents -> OK its Dual licence but its not going to stop MS Legal thinking they can throw stones at us … and actually QT is used a lot!, a lot of industrial apps and OS apps are built on it, and this is classic ARM territory -> MS want to rule that space like they prev ruled desktops -> I foresee the next battle ground" Am I thinking about this too hard or will this acquisitions be of significant and detrimental consequence for QT derived works. Should any of the FSF groups etc be raising potential concerns to respective competition authorities that highlight that QT related patents could be used to restrict the development models used for the linux desktop [ and by extension any graphics based ecosystem*] (fyi my concern is that the designs for api and signalling will be more impactful than the actual visual widgets, as some of those designs are likely also present in Gnome etc) Welcome any thought.. especially from people more knowledgable about QT. * = the memo team, if i recall was a strong contributor to some of the directfb work which is an important alternative to the X subsystems for draw rendering… mostly used for i.e. mobiles and tablets. Jay -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] untended consequences of Nokia buyout
Thanks guys The about & Licence page on the IDE hasn't been updated, but having followed the nokia links they redirect to Digia. Full details are on the about-us page. On 7 Sep 2013, at 08:44, "Jon Fautley" wrote: > On 7 Sep 2013, at 7:17, Joseph Bennie wrote: > >> "Nokia owns QT -> microsoft just bought Nokia and most of their patents -> >> OK its Dual licence but its not going to stop MS Legal thinking they can >> throw stones at us … and actually QT is used a lot!, a lot of industrial >> apps and OS apps are built on it, and this is classic ARM territory -> MS >> want to rule that space like they prev ruled desktops -> I foresee the next >> battle ground" > > Nokia doesn't own Qt, it sold it to Digia in March 2011. > > ___ > Surrey mailing list > sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/surrey > http://www.surrey.lug.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] untended consequences of Nokia buyout
On 7 September 2013 10:11, Joseph Bennie wrote: > The about & Licence page on the IDE hasn't been updated, but having followed > the nokia links they redirect to Digia. Full details are on the about-us > page. > Odd. Which IDE on what distro is that? It's updated here in qtcreator. http://popey.com/~alan/qtc_about.png Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] untended consequences of Nokia buyout
On 7 Sep 2013, at 11:39, Alan Pope wrote: > On 7 September 2013 10:11, Joseph Bennie wrote: >> The about & Licence page on the IDE hasn't been updated, but having followed >> the nokia links they redirect to Digia. Full details are on the about-us >> page. >> > > Odd. Which IDE on what distro is that? > Distro = Debian 7 (iso 7.0.1, but app installed today via gnome package manager) App = Monkey Studio IDE(top search for QT4 Integrated Development Environment) package name = monkey studio-1.9.0.2-2 (32 bit) License = unknown in repo …. -> app implies LGPL 2.1 + https://www.dropbox.com/s/pku6te151r9htft/QTLicense.png > It's updated here in qtcreator. > > http://popey.com/~alan/qtc_about.png > > Cheers, > Al. > > ___ > Surrey mailing list > sur...@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/surrey > http://www.surrey.lug.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [Surrey] untended consequences of Nokia buyout
On 7 September 2013 12:58, Joseph Bennie wrote: > Distro = Debian 7 (iso 7.0.1, but app installed today via gnome package > manager) > App = Monkey Studio IDE(top search for QT4 Integrated Development > Environment) > package name = monkey studio-1.9.0.2-2 (32 bit) > License = unknown in repo …. -> app implies LGPL 2.1 + > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/pku6te151r9htft/QTLicense.png Ah qt4. Retro! :D -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
