Wie Nokia und Trolltech heute bekannt gaben, wird Nokia Trolltech für 104 Millionen kaufen. Trolltech und Nokia versichern, dass auch in Zukunft, alle Entwicklungen unter die GPL zu stellen. Nokia möchte nun als offizieller Unterstützer für das KDE4-Projekt sein. Dies wurde in einem gemeinsamen Open Letter deutlich. Anbei der Open Letter von Nokia und Trolltech.

“Open letter to KDE and the Open Source community – Joint announcement
Nokia and Trolltech have today announced that we have agreed that Nokia will make a
public tender offer to acquire Trolltech. Trolltech’s management and board of directors
support Nokia’s offer. We felt it was important to directly inform you about this and to
start an open dialog.
We will continue to actively develop Qt and Qtopia. We also want to underline that we
will continue to support the open source community by continuing to release these
technologies under the GPL.
Trolltech has benefited greatly from the feedback the community has been providing
while using Qt to develop free software. We respect the symbiotic relationship Qt has
with the community and we wish to continue and enhance this relationship.
This acquisition is still in a very early stage and as such we do not yet have all of the
answers. In the coming weeks, Nokia and Trolltech employees will form a working group
to identify ways of further improving our relationship with the open source community.
We would appreciate your comments and ideas on how to achieve this at
opensource@trolltech.com.
Nokia is committed to continue Trolltech’s current open source engagements, including
honoring the KDE Free Qt agreement, and we will seek to strengthen our support of KDE
in the future. As a first step Nokia will apply to become a Patron of KDE*.
Sincerely,
Haavard Nord, CEO and co-founder, Trolltech
Eirik Chambe-Eng, Chief Troll and co-founder, Trolltech
Lee Williams, Senior Vice President, Nokia
For more information about Nokia’s involvement in the open source community, please
see: www.opensource.nokia.com

* More information on the Patrons of KDE can be found here:
http://ev.kde.org/supporting-members.php“

Quelle: http://trolltech.com/28012008/28012008-letter