Looking at how my text art came through the mailing list service, there is too
much overlap. I tried to “draw” this so that next one begins around the time
previous ends, but did not fully succeed. I hope the main point was still
successfully conveyed.
Yours,
Tuukka
From: Interest <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 7. January 2021 at 17.42
To: Michael Jackson <[email protected]>, [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.15 pull out of open source?!
Hi Michael,
All Qt feature releases are available for all users of Qt. It is just the
extended period of long-term support that is available for commercial license
holders only.
One way to visualize period of available patch releases for open-source users
is as follows:
Qt 5.13 *********
Qt 5.14 ***********
Qt 5.15 **********
Qt 6.0 ********
Qt 6.1 **********
Qt 6.2 *********
Qt 6.3
**********
Same thing for commercial users is as follows:
Qt 5.13 *********
Qt 5.14 ***********
Qt 5.15 LTS
*************************************************************
Qt 6.0 ********
Qt 6.1 **********
Qt 6.2 LTS
*************************************************
Qt 6.3
**********
Note that this is an indicative visualization of the period when patch releases
are created for each Qt version, not accurate timeline representation of patch
release dates.
In essence the situation for open-source users is just like it was for everyone
before introducing the long-term supported releases (with Qt 5.6).
Yours,
Tuukka
From: Michael Jackson <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 7. January 2021 at 17.01
To: Tuukka Turunen <[email protected]>, [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.15 pull out of open source?!
Dear Tuukka,
As an open source developer who has used Qt since 2009, I am still a bit
confused as to what versions of Qt6 that my open-source project should be using
over time? For example, we might be lucky enough to port to the 6.0 release,
and then to 6.1. If 6.2 is LTS and commercial only, what is the next Qt 6
version that an open-source project would jump to? Would that be 6.3? Is TQtC
going to do something like the “odd (6.1, 6.3…)” releases are opensource but
the “even (62, 6.4…)” releases are commercial only? Is there a longer term
roadmap available that explains TQtC vision on how this will work?
--
Michael Jackson | Owner, President
BlueQuartz Software
[e] [email protected]
[w] www.bluequartz.net
From: Interest <[email protected]> on behalf of Tuukka Turunen
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 4:38 AM
To: Giuseppe D'Angelo <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.15 pull out of open source?!
Hi,
Apologies for not sending the mail also to the interest mailing list. This is
nothing new, as this was announced in already February 2020. Otherwise Qt
continues to be available for open-source users, but the long-term support
releases of Qt will be available only for the commercial license holders. First
commercial-only patch release being Qt 5.15.3 planned to be released in
February 2021.
Qt 5.15.2 continues to be available for all users, so situation is similar as
with Qt 5.13 and Qt 5.14, for example (no new patch releases). Qt 6.0.0 and
subsequent patch releases, as well as upcoming Qt 6.1 and Qt 6.2 etc releases
are also available for open-source users. Eventually we will enter
long-term-support phase with Qt 6.2 LTS at which point again these are only for
commercial license holders, but all releases done until that point continue to
be available for all users.
Yours,
Tuukka
From: Interest <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 7. January 2021 at 10.45
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 5.15 pull out of open source?!
Hi,
Il 07/01/21 04:03, Jérôme Godbout ha scritto:
> Hi,
> is this any true?
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.15-LTS-Commercial-Phase
Please see the thread on development@ (no idea why the original message
was not posted on interest@ as well.).
> https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-January/040798.html
HTH,
--
Giuseppe D'Angelo | [email protected] | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com
KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts
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