On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 17:02, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote:
> > > - What about the KDE Free Qt Foundation and its agreement with The Qt > > Company that states that if The Qt Company were to release a > commercial > > Qt version without releasing a corresponding open source version > > within 12 months, then Qt will be available under a BSD license? > > It does not say that. It says that the KDE Free Qt Foundation receives the > code under the BSD, not that the Foundation releases to the rest of the > world > as BSD. It can choose to give to a single entity under that licence to re- > bootstrap the commercial ecosystem. Also note this only applies to the > "KDE > Windowing System", which are systems that KDE (rather, Plasma Desktop > these > days) runs on. The mobile platforms are not included. > Android is included at the same level than "KDE Windowing System" i.e. "Core platforms". Also iOS, Windows and other platforms are included in the agreement as "Additional platforms". Sections 1.1, 5 and 6 of the agreement make it clear that such "Additional platforms" are covered by the agreement, as the code for these platforms must be release *to the public* under a BSD license if they are not supported anymore and not replaced by a "successor platform".
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