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{{See also|List of Qt releases}}
[[File:KDE Mascot Konqi for Qt.png|thumb|KDE mascot [[Konqi]] showing its Qt heart.]]
Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng (the original developers of Qt and the CEO and President, respectively, of [[Trolltech]]) began development of "Qt" in 1991, three years before the company was incorporated as Quasar Technologies, then changed the name to Troll Tech and then to Trolltech.<ref name="oreilly-qt">{{cite web|url=http://safari.oreilly.com/0131872494/pref04|title=A Brief History of Qt|accessdate=20 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630213541/http://safari.oreilly.com/0131872494/pref04|archive-date=30 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Until version 1.45 the source code of Qt was released under the ''Qt Free Edition License''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=qt1.git&a=blob&h=2b98366d82a95f66988a7206290120e8c698ea40&f=LICENSE&o=plain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014010101/https://quickgit.kde.org/?p%3Dqt1.git%26a%3Dblob%26h%3D2b98366d82a95f66988a7206290120e8c698ea40%26f%3DLICENSE%26o%3Dplain|title=Qt Free Edition License|year=1992|publisher=Trolltech|accessdate=14 October 2016|url-status=dead|archivedate=14 October 2016}}</ref> This was viewed as not compliant with the open source principle by the [[Open Source Initiative]] and the free software definition by [[Free Software Foundation]] because, while the source was available, it did not allow the redistribution of modified versions.
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