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At the end of 2001, Trolltech released Qt 3.0, which added support for Mac OS X (now known as [[macOS]]). The Mac OS X support was available only in the proprietary license until June 2003, when Trolltech released Qt 3.2 with Mac OS X support available under the GPL.

In 2002, members of the [[KDE on Cygwin]] project began porting the GPL licensed Qt/X11 code base to Windows.<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://qtwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/history.php|title=Q../Windows Edition history|date=5 June 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731070812/http://qtwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/history.php|archive-date=31 July 2010}}</ref> This was in response to Trolltech's refusal to license Qt/Windows under the GPL on the grounds that Windows was not a free/open source software platform.<ref>[https://marc.info/?l=kde-cygwin&m=104431728920022&w=2 E-mail to the kde-cygwin mailing list] by Chris January, 4 February 2003

</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/noncomm.html |title=Qt Non-commercial FAQ |publisher=Trolltech |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031005175911/http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/noncomm.html |archive-date=5 October 2003}}</ref> The project achieved reasonable success although it never reached production quality.