As far as I understand the next LTS release will be Qt 6.2. If 5.15 will not receive any more patches open source users are left without LTS till 6.2 is released. Am I correct?
>From now on, will LTS releases be available only for commercial users? Thanks, Calogero On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:59 PM Tuukka Turunen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Roland, > > > > Just so that there is no misunderstanding Qt 5.15.2 release stays > available for all users, it is just the upcoming LTS phase patch releases > that will be commercial only. In essence for the open-source users Qt 5.15 > is similar to Qt 5.13 and Qt 5.14 (non-LTS releases). > > > > Yours, > > > > Tuukka > > > > *From: *Development <[email protected]> > *Date: *Monday, 4. January 2021 at 16.33 > *To: *Qt Development ML <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [Development] Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing > the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January > > Am Mo., 4. Jan. 2021 um 14:38 Uhr schrieb Benjamin TERRIER < > [email protected]>: > > > > > > On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 14:14, Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:55:03AM +0000, Tuukka Turunen wrote: > >With Qt 6.0.0 released and the first patch release (Qt 6.0.1) coming > >soon, it is time to enter the commercial-only LTS phase for Qt 5.15 > >LTS. > > > that's some brilliant timing, given that no actual qt 6 release even > exists yet. (yeah, 6.0 is a joke given that you intend to break binary > compat in 6.1 - that's the wisdom of linking r&d's bonus payments to > release dates even for major versions). > > > > Yes, it would have made sense that the Qt Company waits for all modules to > be available in Qt 6 before dropping the 5.15 open support... > > > > I cannot express how much I agree to this. Qt6 has half of the modules > required by my project not yet available, so upgrading is not possible. On > the other hand, 5.15 LTS is closed for the open source users - this is > quite a heavy restriction for me since my project is non-profit and open > source. Buying a commercial license is not an option. > > Yes I'm aware that I'm a small fish in a large pond and QtC won't care > about my contributions or me as a developer using Qt since there is no > profit to make with me. On the other hand, I will carefully think about > using Qt again in future projects or recommend it to other people. > > This is not a complaint. Its your business and your rules. I'm just trying > to express the thoughts of a bigger but usally silent group of open > source/non-profit users which are directly impacted by this. > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development > -- Calogero Mauceri Software Engineer Applied Coherent Technology Corporation (ACT) www.actgate.com
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