As part of the controversies surrounding adoption of the Qt library by the
KDE project, various Qt copyright holders have also agreed to DOSP practices
as a contractual backstop to ensure that future versions of Qt remain
usable in free software. A series of contracts between KDE community
nonprofit entities and Qt copyright holders include commitments to release
future Qt versions under specific license terms with a ``within a timeframe
of not more than 12 months" relative to any proprietary
release.\footnote{See \otsurl{https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/}, which includes the exact language of the licensors' contractual
commitments;
a portion of the historical context is described in