{"id":9713,"date":"2021-04-11T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:00:38","slug":"kde-project-forced-to-maintain-their-own-set-of-qt-5-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/kde-project-forced-to-maintain-their-own-set-of-qt-5-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Project Forced to Maintain Their Own Set of Qt 5 Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The KDE project and the open-source Linux community have found themselves in a fix after The Qt Company dropped the Qt 5.15 LTS release from the open-source release, making it only available to its commercial users. 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