By the way, gathering emails by requiring an account to download the software without any technical reason might be indeed an example of a GDPR violation.
Cheers Dmitriy On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:36 PM Frederik Schwarzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 27.01.2020 15:34 schrieb Lars Knoll: > > Hi, > > > The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required > > for binary packages. > > We (as an embedded software company) depend a lot on commercial hardware > with the software tools that are provided by the hardware vendors. The > most annoying part of that is the need to log in for downloading that > software. For those vendors there is no reason to require a log in > technically. The software is not tied to the hardware or anything. It's > probably just for data collection reasons. It sometimes just takes hours > before they call your phone trying to sell you something. ... > What this leads to here is that someone creates an account and puts some > version of the software on our internal server. Everyone then uses that > version instead of registering yet another account. The software on our > server reaches back years and there is no plan updating. That's what > happens if you put barriers in front of people. You get users who use > old version. > > > > In addition, we want open source users to contribute to Qt or the Qt > > ecosystem. Doing so is only possible with a valid Qt Account > > I do not believe that requiring an account leads to more contributions. > It just leads to more emails in yet another database that will > eventually be found open to the public due to some misconfiguration. > Only collect personal data if it is really needed. > > > > The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer > > a lower priced product for small businesses. That small business > > product is btw not limited to mobile like the one Digia had some years > > ago, but covers all of Qt for Device Creation. > > That however, seems good news. :) > > Regards, > Frederik > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development >
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