Text Editors & Language Support
Germany — Text Editors & Language SupportC/C++ Germany — Congrats! But seems we lost the C/C++ Language maintainer. :( 2012/9/18 Thorbjørn Martsum <[email protected]> > +1 and thanks for the info :) > > Is there an official (and final) count of developers moved from Nokia to > Digia? > Is it assumable that the current maintainers keep their positions within > Digia? > (and in that case ... the maintainer list seems to need an update .... > http://qt-project.org/wiki/Maintainers ) > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Knoll Lars <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> I wanted to let you all know that the acquisition of Qt by Digia has been >> completed yesterday. Many Trolls in Oslo and Berlin have their first day >> working for Digia today. In Oslo we had lots of champagne and cake in the >> morning, giving us a pretty good start into the day ;-) >> >> You will from now on see all the developers that have transferred over to >> Digia posting and submitting code with their brand new Digia email >> addresses. >> >> This change should for the most part not have any effects on >> qt-project.org, but there are a few formal and legal changes happening >> now: >> >> 1. The CLA's of all contributors haven been assigned from Nokia to Digia. >> This is mainly an FYI, as nobody who has signed a CLA will need to take any >> explicit action here. >> >> 2. All traffic to qt.nokia.com will be redirected to qt.digia.com. >> >> 3. Digia has taken responsibility for the qt-project.org infrastructure >> and committed itself to continue funding it. >> >> 4. Digia has entered into the KDE Free Qt foundation agreement and is >> from now on bound by it. >> >> 5. With the acquisition, the Nokia copyrights on the Qt code base all >> transfer to Digia. Because of this we will need to change the copyright >> headers in all Qt source files from Nokia to Digia. In addition, we will >> re-add a small clause about commercial licensing into the headers to list >> all possible licensing variants there. The reason for adding the commercial >> piece is mainly transparency (because these are the possible licensing >> options). In addition, this change will enable us to avoid having to >> rewrite licensing headers during the release creating in the future and >> keep the same, unchanged source files in all releases (OSS and commercial). >> >> With these changes the new licensing header for QObject will look as >> follows: >> >> >> /**************************************************************************** >> ** >> ** Copyright (C) 2012 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies). >> ** Contact: http://qt-project.org/legal >> ** >> ** This file is part of the QtCore module of the Qt Toolkit. >> ** >> ** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$ >> ** Commercial License Usage >> ** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in >> ** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the >> ** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in >> ** a written agreement between you and Digia. For licensing terms and >> ** conditions see http://qt.digia.com/licensing. For further information >> ** use the contact form at http://qt.digia.com/contact-us. >> ** >> ** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage >> ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser >> ** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software >> ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the >> ** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to >> ** ensure the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 requirements >> ** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html. >> ** >> ** In addition, as a special exception, Digia gives you certain additional >> ** rights. These rights are described in the Digia Qt LGPL Exception >> ** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package. >> ** >> ** GNU General Public License Usage >> ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU >> ** General Public License version 3.0 as published by the Free Software >> ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in the >> ** packaging of this file. Please review the following information to >> ** ensure the GNU General Public License version 3.0 requirements will be >> ** met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. >> ** >> ** >> ** $QT_END_LICENSE$ >> ** >> >> ****************************************************************************/ >> >> As you can see, it's basically the same header as before, will all >> occurrences of Nokia replaced by Digia, the section about "Commercial >> License Usage" added and the contact page changed to qt-project.org/legalso >> that we have a better landing page for legal questions (that page is >> being created right now…). >> >> Cheers, >> Lars >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Development mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > > -- Best Regards Yuchen
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