[Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Knoll Lars
Hi, As you've seen in my blog post on Wednesday, Digia has decided to add LGPLv3as a licensing option to all of Qt. This decision has been driven by several factors as explained in my blog post. Digia could do this decision due to it's rights to the code through the CLA. Having the option to add

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Jake Petroules
On 2014-08-22, at 03:21 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi, The goal here is that adopters of those new Qt modules will have to abide by the terms of the LGPLv3, which require the ability to replace the Qt that is on the device on the actual device, thus creating an open

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Knoll Lars
On 22/08/14 09:29, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: On 2014-08-22, at 03:21 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi, The goal here is that adopters of those new Qt modules will have to abide by the terms of the LGPLv3, which require the ability to replace the Qt

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Jake Petroules
On 2014-08-22, at 05:04 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: On 22/08/14 09:29, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: On 2014-08-22, at 03:21 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi, The goal here is that adopters of those new Qt modules will have to abide by

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Knoll Lars
On 22/08/14 11:32, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: What makes the iOS App Store different from the others? Microsoft has added explicit exception clauses for FOSS software in their terms. To quote (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh694058.aspx): Your

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Jake Petroules
On 2014-08-22, at 06:13 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: On 22/08/14 11:32, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: What makes the iOS App Store different from the others? Microsoft has added explicit exception clauses for FOSS software in their terms. To quote

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Knoll Lars
On 22/08/14 12:26, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: On 2014-08-22, at 06:13 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: On 22/08/14 11:32, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: What makes the iOS App Store different from the others? Microsoft has added

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Friday 22 August 2014 10:13:52 Knoll Lars wrote: On 22/08/14 11:32, Jake Petroules jake.petrou...@petroules.com wrote: What makes the iOS App Store different from the others? Microsoft has added explicit exception clauses for FOSS software in their terms. To quote

[Development] QStorageInfo class

2014-08-22 Thread Matthias WALTER
Hello, About QStorageInfo planned for the next Qt 5.4 release : In qdriveinfo.h DriveInfo::DriveType - is declared but not used in all system files : InternalFlashDrive -RemoteDrive, you don't want to rename it at NetworkDrive ? Thank you

[Development] Multimedia support.

2014-08-22 Thread Thorvaldur Jochumsson
Hi I am currently designing multimedia support for my application. I am wondering which approach to take. Should I make use of the phonon library or make use of the multimedia support provided in the Qt multimedia library? We are currently making use of Qt 4.8, where phonon is supported. However,

Re: [Development] QtMultimedia and Musepack

2014-08-22 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hi, AFAIK QtMultimedia on Linux uses Gstreamer for video and audio playback, so installing the right Gstreamer plugins should (hopefully) fix this issue. Maybe this will help: https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad/ Cheers, Conny On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 13:09 +0200,

[Development] QStorageInfo class

2014-08-22 Thread Иван Комиссаров
Forwarded Иван Комиссаров Начало переадресованного сообщения: Отправитель: Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com Тема: Ответ: [Development] QStorageInfo class Дата: 19 августа 2014 г., 22:21:35 GMT+4 Получатель: development@qt-project.org On Tuesday 19 August 2014 20:04:39 Matthias WALTER

[Development] Network streaming

2014-08-22 Thread Thorvaldur Jochumsson
Hi I am currently looking into what is the best way to support viewing of a network stream. Currently I am viewing it by using the gstreams API directly. I am looking into any other possibilities to view the stream. My gst-launch looks like this: sudo gst-launch -v udpsrc

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday 22 August 2014 12:38:43 Olivier Goffart wrote: Then the problem with the LGPLv3 is that you must indeed be able to provide the users with instruction on how to replace the Qt. For that, one must provide the objects files. The user will be able to link and deploy on his device using

Re: [Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

2014-08-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday 22 August 2014 07:21:38 Knoll Lars wrote: With this in mind I would like to now formally adopt and embrace these changes to how Digia will release Qt as changes to the licensing policy within the Qt Project as well. There are basically three changes: 1. Modules that are part of Qt

Re: [Development] Network streaming

2014-08-22 Thread Michal Lazo
As far as I know qt multimedia use gstreamer on linux and there is also gstreamer 1.0 patch somewhere. Internally qt multimedia user playbin (gstreamer element). It is big playback element And qt setup gstreamer playbin uri property

[Development] Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

2014-08-22 Thread Stefan Kullack
Dear all, for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!! It would be fantastic if you could spend two minutes on three

Re: [Development] Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

2014-08-22 Thread Kurt Pattyn
Hi Stefan, I would appreciate if you could give a small explanation of what your research is about. People get bothered with surveys much too often. Cheers, Kurt On 22 Aug 2014, at 23:54, Stefan Kullack stefankull...@web.de wrote: Dear all, for a university research project at the