Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi, If there is misleading or incorrect information in the website, please let us know: https://www.qt.io/contact-us/other Open-source licensing is a complex topic, so it is always easiest to look into it case by case as it depends a lot upon what and how is developed. The qt.io website trie

Re: [Interest] Building QTWebEngine

2019-10-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 16:07:46 PDT Simon Matthews wrote: > [simon@UserBuild qtwebengine]$ make > make: Nothing to be done for 'first'. That indicates it did not configure itself to build. I ran into this issue today: one of my colleagues is workng to remove Python2 from the distribution a

Re: [Interest] Building QTWebEngine

2019-10-09 Thread Simon Matthews
On 10/9/19 3:52 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 15:18:33 PDT Simon Matthews wrote: >> However, it appears that files such as "Qt5WebEngineConfig.cmake" are >> not included in my build. >> >> Is it necessary to build QtWebEngine as a separate build? > No. > > Are you sure t

Re: [Interest] Building QTWebEngine

2019-10-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 15:18:33 PDT Simon Matthews wrote: > However, it appears that files such as "Qt5WebEngineConfig.cmake" are > not included in my build. > > Is it necessary to build QtWebEngine as a separate build? No. Are you sure the build completed without errors? To be sure, go in

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:43:58 PDT Uwe Rathmann wrote: > Of course this information is useless for someone who wants to change > the license - the decision for the LGPL had been made long before. It is > about sending the message that you should not do LGPL, if you don't want > to be banned

[Interest] Building QTWebEngine

2019-10-09 Thread Simon Matthews
On 10/8/19 11:46 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:16:28 PDT Simon Matthews wrote: >> I am trying to build Qt 5.13.1 on CentOS6. > > You're missing xkbcommon. Please install 0.5.0 or later. I was able to find appropriate packages for xkbcommon and build Qt 5.13.1. I need

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread alexander golks
Am Wed, 9 Oct 2019 20:43:58 +0200 schrieb Uwe Rathmann : > Of course this information is useless for someone who wants to change > the license - the decision for the LGPL had been made long before. It is > about sending the message that you should not do LGPL, if you don't want > to be banned l

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On 10/9/19 5:32 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: All cases are good. It just depends on how much you pay. Today: "If you have already started the development with an open-source version of Qt and wish to move to a commercial license you need to have a written explicit permission from The Qt Compa

[Interest] Grade - Matching repositories to dependencies

2019-10-09 Thread Nuno Santos
Hi, Today I have stumbled on a really particular problem on my Qt Android app. I use OneSignal for Push Notifications and PiracyChecker for piracy checking. Before both libs were hosted on jitpack but recently OneSignal has moved to: maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/‘} The problem i

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 05:48:52 PDT Uwe Rathmann wrote: > > Similar rule is related to not being ok to develop the solution with > > free version and then ship under commercial one. We do allow > > migration from open-source to commercial - of course. The case by > > case acceptance rule is t

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Uwe Rathmann
Hi Tuukka, This is not about making closed source applications with LGPL licensed Qt, or whatever kind of business is done with such. Of course this thread is also about these options - I'm criticizing the way how the Qt Company tries to prevent users from taking this route. The point is that

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi Uwe, This is not about making closed source applications with LGPL licensed Qt, or whatever kind of business is done with such. The point is that Qt as a dual licensed technology has some rules related to the commercial license option. One of these rules is that the whole team should go co

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread alexander golks
Am Wed, 9 Oct 2019 11:05:08 +0200 schrieb Uwe Rathmann : > But I have a strong opinion about using FUD as sales strategy: > > - intimidation paragraphs > - blacklisting projects that follow the rules of the LGPL properly > - giving wrong information ( check the video ) about the LGPL > > Uwe +1

Re: [Interest] Licensing

2019-10-09 Thread Uwe Rathmann
On 10/8/19 7:13 PM, Ilya Diallo wrote: In the latter case, the rational is (I guess) to prevent a company, say, to work with 20 developers for 3 years on an OSS Qt license, then switch to commercial when it's time to ship the product and the team is reduced to a core maintenance crew. That lat