On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 13:01, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:40:46PM +0100, Filippo Cucchetto wrote: > >Maybe you didn't get it but i meant to both put a reasonable price for > >a commercial license (500$) and turning everything GPL or commercial. > >Making everything GPL forces all LGPL to buy a commercial license. This > >obviously could turn away some people but only if there isn't a proper > >offer for the commercial license. > > > that's a fine plan and i assure you that tqtc management would *love* to > do at least the gpl part (not sure they'd have the wisdom to lower the > prices and properly reward contributors, though). > > unfortunately, this won't work unless kde agrees that the only moral > thing to do would be allowing tqtc to restore the pre-nokia gpl > licensing, given that tqtc is in pretty much the same position as > trolltech was. of course, tqtc has a much less likable and trustworthy > management, but in their defense, they are also a bit desperate to > satisfy their greedy shareholders. capitalism rocks, huh? > > (going gpl-only would inevitably lead to a fork, but if we assume > appropriate licensing cost of upstream, that fork would be driven by > people who are unable or unwilling to invest (time or money), plus a few > idealists. that would make it pretty much an LTS branch, and thus not > pose a serious threat to tqtc's business. at least that's my hypothesis.
10 years ago or so, I was working for a small (tiny) company, I wanted to use Qt for a new project. Back in these days, Qt was GPL only, and as i was doing proprietary SW, I had to reject that idea. Buying a license was a no-go (for whatever reason, this was not my business). So I ended up reinvented the wheel (thread, network, byte/text processing, ...). I would see Qt-GPL-only as a regression. I understand that tqtc needs to make money, no problem with that. But I'm not convinced that GPL-only will actually work as intended (bring more user/money) as illustrated above. My 2 cents, Chris _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development