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=== Acquisition by Nokia ===
[[Nokia]] acquired Trolltech ASA on 17 June 2008 and changed the name first to Qt Software, then to Qt Development Frameworks.

Nokia focused on turning Qt into the main development platform for its devices, including a port to the [[Symbian]] [[S60 (software platform)|S60 platform]]. Version 1.0 of the Nokia Qt SDK was released on 23 June 2010.<ref>{{cite web|first=Niels|last=Weber |url=https://blog.qt.io/blog/2010/06/23/nokia-qt-sdk-10-released/ |title=Nokia Qt SDK 1.0 released |publisher=Labs.trolltech.com |date=23 June 2010 |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref> The source code was made available over Gitorious, a community oriented [[Git (software)|git]] source code repository, with a goal of creating a broader community using and improving Qt.

On 14 January 2009, Qt version 4.5 added another option, the [[LGPL]],<ref>{{cite web|first=Sebastian|last=Nyström |url=https://blog.qt.io/blog/2009/01/14/nokia-to-license-qt-under-lgpl/|title=Nokia to license Qt under LGPL|date=14 January 2009 |access-date=17 September 2013}}</ref> to make Qt more attractive for both non-GPL open source projects and closed applications.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ics.com/files/docs/Qt_LGPL.pdf |title=ICS Whitepaper on the Implications of Qt under LGPL for Commercial and Government users |access-date=13 November 2011}}</ref>

In February 2011, Nokia announced its decision to drop Symbian technologies and base their future smartphones on the [[Windows Phone]] platform instead (and since then support for that platform has also been dropped).<ref name="MSNokiaPressRelease2011">
{{cite press release |title= Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build a New Global Mobile Ecosystem |url= http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/feb11/02-11partnership.mspx |publisher= [[Microsoft]] |date= 10 February 2011 |access-date= 27 October 2011|archive-date= 1 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401153916/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2011/feb11/02-11partnership.mspx}}</ref> One month later, Nokia announced the sale of Qt's commercial licensing and professional services to Digia, with the immediate goal of taking Qt support to [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]] and [[Windows 8]] platforms, and to continue focusing on desktop and embedded development, although Nokia was to remain the main development force behind the framework at that time.