> and the offline installer will become available to commercial licensees only Not to mention "free qt binaries installer" will become a third party thing like, immediately.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:37 PM Benjamin TERRIER <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development >
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