On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:26:15AM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2014 15:55:37 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 07:21:38AM +0000, Knoll Lars wrote: > > > 2. New modules that get added to Qt Project from now on can be licensed > > > either under > > > > for simplicity, i would suggest qt-project states preferences for > > > > specific options: > > > * LGPLv2.1, LGPLv3 and commercial or > > > > of course lgpl2 still makes sense for add-ons hosted outside qt-project, > > and ones where the author explicitly doesn't want digia to make money > > from selling this module (though in this case i wouldn't host on > > qt-project to start with). > > i don't suppose many people would object if we officially discourage this > > option ... > > Well, there are still very good reasons to use LGPLv2.1, > which are (within the scope of qt-project)?
> so I won't pass judgement here. Let's leave this to the author to > decide. > correct, but i was suggesting stating preferences, not limiting the options. > > > * LGPLv3 and commercial > > > > is this really a good idea at this point? [...] with qt's long history, > > there are now many gpl2-only applications which cannot be relicensed any > > more, so they won't be ever able to use these new modules. > > It's required because we need to link to libraries that are compatible with > the v3 but not v2. Namely, the Apache Licence v2-licensed code in Android. > right, i forgot that case. > Besides, applications from the long history of Qt are not using these modules > yet because they don't exist. We're not removing any freedom of theirs. > the point is that they are limited in their expansion of their qt usage, which would be a natural development in many cases. so if one follows this argumentation, this licensing choice should be discouraged unless it is imposed by 3rd-party licensing compatibility. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
