In this statement by Eirik Eng and Matthias Ettrich of Trolltech, the Eng and Ettrich review the history of Qt's licensing and describe the thought process that led to Trolltech's decision to add an option of GPL licensing to Qt. Eng and Ettrich write . . .

“Since the editorial by Eirik Eng on freshmeat.net on July 1st we have received many comments on our stance in the licensing discussions concerning the QPL and the GPL. As mentioned in that editorial we have been actively working for some time to make the QPL compatible with the GPL.”

“When we made the QPL almost two years ago we were afraid of harming the growing Qt programming community with several incompatible versions of Qt. We felt that we lacked the resources to provide an infrastructure to let other parties interested in Qt development cooperate with us, rather than split the development.”

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