Przemek Klosowski wrote:
The reason why I'm asking is that I believe that in general FOSS projects should fork as little as possible, and merge as much as possible, to avoid duplication of effort. There are circumstances where the fork is the only solution, of course, and I am asking what are the circumstances in this case.
In this case, it looks like they forked because of the totally closed development structure of the upstream project and its unwillingness to port from Qt 3 to Qt 4. By now, we are in Qt 5 era, and the projects have diverged so much that a merger is highly unlikely.
Kevin Kofler