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		nl on July 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nginx established as a company Historically, that wasn't always the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)#Licensing The LGPL option was only added in 2009. Prior to that, various licencing mechanisms were used to extract revenue on various platforms. (Eg, at one point the *nix version was GPL'ed but the Windows one wasn't, so you needed to pay to ship it on Windows)

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