On 4/9/20 3:11 PM, Florian Bruhin wrote:
As some people here might already know, the KDE Free Qt foundation made a very
concerning announcement yesterday:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html
You know, there was a rather length discussion on this list about Qt
licensing recently.
Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt, Commercial developers
It might have changed names during the conversation. You can find the
archive here
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/
Myself and others speculated that TQt was looking to end OpenSource Qt.
I even made a comment I was surprised KDE hadn't kicked TQt to the curb
and suggested it was well past time to fork an older (pre QML) version
of Qt into a new project kicking TQt to the curb.
Strict interpretation of the commercial license means that if you
purchase a commercial Qt product you cannot use it on KDE, nor can you
use Doxygen or any of the other OpenSource Qt projects with it. In
particular many on this list had the same issues as pointed out in the
link above.
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* Fixing the incompatibility between paid Qt license terms and using or
contributing to Open Source
(“Prohibited Combination” in https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/ )
* Fixing the license incompatibility between the Qt Design Studio (which is
only partly Free Software) and our existing contract with the company
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Please communicate back to the kdefreeqtfoundation that it is time to
fork an old (pre-QML) version of Qt, possibly even changing the name,
and leave TQt (however it is supposed to be capitalized) in the dust.
QML was a bad idea from the beginning. Many of the later add-ons were
diverting Qt into markets without enough developers to support. In
trying to be all things to everyone a package generally fails.
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