Am 16.01.2016 um 14:30 schrieb Konstantin Tokarev:
16.01.2016, 15:21, "Hunger Tobias" <[email protected]>:
Hi Peter,
I was not involved in the agreement between the Free Qt Foundation and the Qt
Company, so I can not comment in any meaningful way, sorry. Neither have I
insight in our sales numbers, so I can not comment on the effect of GPL or LGPL
on actual sales figures either.
Please consider to comment on the blog post announcing the change: You are more
likely to contact people driving this change there. This is basically just our
out-of-the-way technical mailing list.
I *personally* welcome the outcome very much: We get to provide more free
software and I agree with the idea of software freedom as expressed by the GPL.
It also makes my work-live much easier as I will have less repositories to
juggle once the code moved into the public repository.
There are actually two separate license change events here:
1. Proprietary plugins were relicensed under GPL. I believe that everyone here
agrees that this is a positive change that should be highly appreciated.
I hope nothing useful will be abandoned because of the change.
2. Exisiting code base (including core components) was relicensed to much more
restrictive license. I *personally* see this as a negative change, however I
guess it as a necessary precondition for point #1 to happen.
But who uses internal QtCreator libraries in his product? This would be
the usecase for LGPL. But QtCreator is a all-or-nothing app not a
node.js, so GPL is here maybe really better.
I know there is a third party that was (is?) trying to make a commercial IDE
based on Qt Creator with value added components. Their chief didn't want to
allow developers to act as a part of community, he wanted to just grab the
sources, cripple them and sell as their own product. I am happy that this
license change will drive away such people. But I'm concerned that it will also
drive away more well-intentioned contributors having some commercial interest.
I assume you talk about http://www.pathscale.com/DogFood
And nothing was contributed back, very sad.
As for my personal contributions to Qt Creator project, I'm happy to see them
being in use under any free license that community likes, be it GPLv3 or BSD or
something else.
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