Hi all, PSC, Olaf Schmidt-Wishhöfer from KDE project has made a statement yesterday about a really concerning situation regarding the OpenSource state of Qt.
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html TL;DR : using the argument of COVID-19 crisis, The Qt Company wants to restrict a lot the opensource version of Qt, with a 12 months publishing delay even for security patches. Relations between The Qt Company and the OpenSource community degraded vastly over the last month, and what was a balanced governance and economical situation tends towards a stuck situation, with all OpenSource Qt users at risk of being deeply affected. The KDE Free Qt foundation is currently the organization defending free and opensource access to Qt. https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php Given that QGIS is probably one of the most distributed Qt-based software solution in the world, I think that we should take position in this situation. My Opinion is that QGIS.org should clearly express a full support to the KDE Free Qt Foundation, and send them an official public message. I also think that if the situation evolves to a point where a Qt Fork becomes the only viable solution to continue to have a free and opensource Qt project with a balanced and open governance, then QGIS.org should also contribute to financing the KDE Free Qt foundation yearly, so that they are able to hire maintainers for the library. I think that these points are decisions to be made by the PSC, and that there is a certain urgency to do it. Best regards, Vincent Picavet _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
