[Qt-interest] Difference between commercial and open source release of Qt 4.7.4

Till Oliver Knoll till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 17:14:38 CEST 2011



Am 03.10.2011 um 15:05 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:

>> But now we have some kind of mini-fork with qt-opensource and qt-digia
>> which isn't using the same source and unavailable as standard
>> distribution package.
> 
> Now? All distributions have done a "mini-fork" as you call it. All of them 
> apply patches.

The more interesting question would be, in the case of Digia at least: are those changes ever merged back into the "main" Qt source tree? Or do they have their own closed-source tree and constantly pulling in the changes from "main Qt" behind locked (commercial) doors?

Cheers, Oliver


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