On 09/04/2020 08.28, Florian Bruhin wrote:
Today, The Qt Company released a quick statement:
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-open-source
The Qt Company is proud to be committed to [...] open source, and
the Qt governance model.
Recent actions:
[A]fter more and more moves against the open-source side of Qt
recently, I place a lot more trust in statements coming from KDE
rather than those coming from TQtC...
...say otherwise.
2) Qt tried to bluff in order to force KDE to change some other provision of
their contract, possibly even using the current pandemic as an excuse to do so.
I find this repulsive, but unfortunately, it seems the most likely explanation,
especially given this part of KDEs announcement: "The Qt Company says that they
are willing to reconsider the approach only if we offer them concessions in
other areas. I am reminded, however, of the situation half a year ago. We had
discussed an approach for contract updates, which they suddenly threw away by
restricting LTS releases of Qt instead."
Even assuming this *is* the case, it still doesn't bode well for their
*actual* attitude towards the FLOSS community.
The evidence strongly suggests that TQtC is FLOSS-hostile and that they
are doing the bare minimum necessary to avoid triggering the 'kill
provisions'.
3) Qt is just trying to do damage control and still intends to follow through
with those changes. Like I said, I always try to assume good faith, but the
lack of transparency on TQtC's side about this topic really doesn't help.
This may be the best case scenario, and I suppose it's possible, but
even this would be a case of TQtC (upper management, anyway) being
completely out of tune with the FLOSS community.
I know some readers will have very strong opinions against the Qt
Company after the announcement
Probably. My opinion is unchanged; just solidified.
Remember OOo...
--
Matthew
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