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
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