Re: Another XLibre and/or Wayland subthread

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:44:10 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> On 27 Jul 2026 21:22:16 GMT rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Who controls Qt?
> 
> Used to be Nokia; these days it's apparently some manner of alliance
> between a publically-traded company and an open-source governing body,
> both specifically dedicated to it. The company is Finnish; I dunno about
> the org. Qt definitely seems less prone to infestation with Design Divas
> than the competition, in my observation.

It started out as Trolltech. The trolls were great coders but their 
licensing was arcane. It was free for personal or open source use, but 
there was a license for commercial use. Unfortunately the commercial terms 
were so murky that it discouraged use. Like everything else it's been 
through changes of ownership. It was the commercial part that spurred the 
development of Gtk and GNOME. 

That seems to follow Qt. PyQt is developed by Riverbank Computing and has 
both GPL and commercial licensing. Nokia wanted to release it as LGPL but 
Riverbank refused so Nokia, and later the Qt Company developed their own 
Python bindings and released it as PySide under LGPL. 'Side' is supposedly 
Finnish for 'binding' but I think it really means 'Screw you, Riverbank!'

The two are very close but the official Python version is PySide6.