My understanding of the agreement between The Qt Company and the KDE Free Qt Foundation is that if the Qt Company releases a commercial Qt version without releasing the corresponding open-source version within 12 months, the ownership of Qt will be transferred to the KDE Free Qt Foundation under a BSD license. (section 3.(ii)).
I am pretty sure a source only release would be enough. So I bet that the LTS branches will be public, but we will not have a binary release through the installer. Le lun. 27 janv. 2020 à 17:17, Bogdan Vatra via Development < [email protected]> a écrit : > Hi Lars, > > În ziua de luni, 27 ianuarie 2020, la 16:34:44 EET, Lars Knoll a scris: > > Hi all, > [...] > > > > One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases, where the LTS part > of > > a release is in the future going to be restricted to commercial > customers. > > All bug fixes will (as agreed on the Qt Contributor Summit) go into dev > > first. > > I was at the Qt Contributor Summit, and I can swear that I not heard > anything about LTS being restricted to commercial customers... > > Just to be crystal clear, will you close also the branches? > What will happen if I want to fix something in one of these LTS branches? > > > Backporting bug fixes is something that the Qt Company will take > > care of for these LTS branches. We’ve seen over the past that LTS support > > is something mainly required by large companies, and should hopefully > help > > us get some more commercial support for developing Qt further. > > I bet you the following scenario will happen soon: > - someone will fork Qt LTS (most probably immediately after you closed > these > branches, if not even sooner) > - the community will continue to support that fork as it's open, with > improvements, bug fixes, security patches, etc. > - you'll not get these patches as they are not contributed via your > gerrit... > > > > None of these changes should affect how Qt is being developed. There > won’t > > be any changes to Open Governance or the open development model. > > If the qt5 branches will NOT be closed, then yes, you are right, if they > will > be closed then, I'm afraid, your statement can't stand... > > Cheers, > BogDan. > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development >
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