If Nokia is not interested enough to maintain it, why would they be interested
enough to keep it non-BSD?
Its availability as LGPL as you point out, enable significant deployment of Qt
without the need for it to be BSD.
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From: d3fault <d3faultdot...@gmail.com>
To: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>
Cc: interest@qt-project.org
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>
wrote:
On sexta-feira, 15 de junho de 2012 11.42.07, d3fault wrote:
>> The Qt Trademark and the Nokia Corporation might die (except Qt won't ever
>> 'officially' die. It's in Nokia/Microsoft's best interest to not let the
>> BSD Clause ( http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php)
>> ever get triggered. They'll release a 1-byte patch once per year, or maybe
>> a small bugfix or something, and it'll never get triggered)
>
>The foundation agreement requires a significant release.
>
I see law's not your specialty either.
A lawyer could easily argue that a bug fix is significant. Or maybe they do a
couple of bugfixes, and/or some tiny feature commits?
How many of these tiny bug fixes/features until the release is considered
significant? Who's the judge of that?
The BSD Clause was a great idea in theory, but the implementation failed
horribly. Didn't consider a buyout from a competitor who just sits on it [with
yearly 'fake' releases].
Oh well, LGPL is still usable in a lot of business use cases.
....or are you baiting/trolling me??? you didn't actually think.... well I just
don't know anymore...
and what do you say Thiago, about leading a fork, should the need arise (or has
it already?)? Imo do it through Thiago-personal, not Thiago-intel
d3fault
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