Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-18 Thread Richard Weickelt
Tino, Volker, > In a CI/CD pipeline that depends on 3rd party packages like Qt, it’s a good > idea to manage your own artefact/package repo, so that you have control over > the versions you are building and testing against - or at the very least to > become independent of 3rd party infrastructure

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-18 Thread Volker Hilsheimer
> On 18 Feb 2020, at 10:13, Tino Pyssysalo wrote: > > On 14.2.2020, 22.17, "Thiago Macieira" wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:31:34 PST Thiago Macieira wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:52:49 PST Tino Pyssysalo wrote: It is also possible to transfer the qtaccount.ini

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-18 Thread Tino Pyssysalo
On 14.2.2020, 22.17, "Thiago Macieira" wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:31:34 PST Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:52:49 PST Tino Pyssysalo wrote: > > > It is also possible to transfer the qtaccount.ini file to a CI machine, > > > which removes

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-14 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:31:34 PST Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:52:49 PST Tino Pyssysalo wrote: > > It is also possible to transfer the qtaccount.ini file to a CI machine, > > which removes the need for manual/interactive login. The qtaccount.ini > > just > >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-05 Thread d3fault
Both the "removal of LTS" and "removal of offline installers" serve as evidence that Tuukka Turunen doesn't care about the Free Software/Culture movement. In both cases he is actively hurting the open source side of Qt in order to promote the business side. The work is already being done to create

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-03 Thread Ville Voutilainen
On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 16:17, coroberti . wrote: > > Jason, > The main market for QtCompany is embedded, automotive, etc. > > Mobile is aside with no real sales there. > > So, unless community develops features required, > do not expect to get new mobile features fast. > Sorry to say that. We

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-03 Thread coroberti .
t; > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 9:34 AM > > From: "Lars Knoll" > > To: "Qt development mailing list" > > Subject: [Development] Changes to Qt offering > > > > Hi all, > > > > The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt wil

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-03 Thread Andras Mantia via Development
Hey, On Monday, February 3, 2020 10:28:53 AM EET Ville Voutilainen wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 08:58, Bogdan Vatra wrote: > > > Qt installer resumes downloads after a network connection break. > > > apt-get does not. :) > > > > > You must be kidding, apt it's (one of) the best package

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-03 Thread Ville Voutilainen
On Mon, 3 Feb 2020 at 08:58, Bogdan Vatra wrote: > > Qt installer resumes downloads after a network connection break. > > apt-get does not. :) > > You must be kidding, apt it's (one of) the best package manager! It resumes > the download(s) from the same point from where the connection dropped.

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-02 Thread Bogdan Vatra via Development
În ziua de duminică, 2 februarie 2020, la 13:14:13 EET, Ville Voutilainen a scris: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 18:11, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > > I wonder where all this love for the Qt installer comes from. I personally > > consider “sudo apt-get install -y qtcreator” or “brew install

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-02-02 Thread Ville Voutilainen
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 18:11, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > I wonder where all this love for the Qt installer comes from. I personally > consider “sudo apt-get install -y qtcreator” or “brew install qt-creator” or > “choco install qtcreator" to be vastly superior to using the installer UI, > and

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-31 Thread Scott Bloom
- From: Development [mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Mark De Wit Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:06 AM To: Qt development mailing list Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering I'm guessing the Qt installer has now been updated in line with the licensing changes?

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-31 Thread Mark De Wit
: Tino Pyssysalo > Sent: 31 January 2020 09:32 > To: Mark De Wit ; Qt development mailing list > > Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering > > The problem must be somewhere else. There are no installer changes in > production yet. > -- > Tino Pyssy

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-31 Thread Tino Pyssysalo
The problem must be somewhere else. There are no installer changes in production yet. -- Tino Pyssysalo Qt Installer Product Owner On 31.1.2020, 11.09, "Development on behalf of Mark De Wit" wrote: > I'm guessing the Qt installer has now been updated in line with the licensing

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-31 Thread Mark De Wit
developers in this company to create Qt accounts, that's a non-starter... Mark > -Original Message- > From: Development On Behalf Of > Mark De Wit > Sent: 28 January 2020 11:38 > To: Lars Knoll ; Qt development mailing list > > Subject: Re: [Development] C

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-30 Thread Florian Bruhin
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 05:22:04PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > On 29/01/2020 17.13, Konstantin Shegunov wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:55 PM Matthew Woehlke wrote: > >> We need more open-source-meets-kickstarter... > > > > ehm, Patreon? > > Aside from issues with Patreon's reputation,

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-30 Thread James Maxwell
I run a small business. we are 2.5 developers (one is working half time), and our revenue is about 150 000 $. We do general development for other small businesses, from web applications to desktop software. Probably about half of our revenue is based on software where we use Qt. So we don't

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:55:18 PST Thiago Macieira wrote: > That's because we're sloppy and haven't done a proper job. The security > advisory was supposed to go out at the same time as the Qt 5.14.1 release > announcement. But the release announcement went out without the security >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 08:10:23 PST Robert Loehning wrote: > [1] wasn't mentioned anywhere on qt.io and I didn't notice it on > annou...@qt-project.org, either. > > [2] was mentioned in a blog post, but I could not find any public steps > for reproducing the issue, so one cannot test

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:55:49 PST Alejandro Exojo wrote: > If we don't have this, we could end up with random projects on > Gitlab/Github, with custom cherry picks from dev applied, and the community > effort wasted because it's just plain hard to coordinate for an effort like > this

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Christian Gagneraud
On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 13:01, Oswald Buddenhagen 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

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
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

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Il 29/01/20 23:40, Filippo Cucchetto ha scritto: Let's be clear, here all people are just telling their own opinions (you too) and i'm not pretending to be correct. I've no proof but: first, the offer announced here is of 499$ thus not very different from the one i've stated, second i've pointed

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Filippo Cucchetto
> Just because it seems like a good price for you doesn't mean it's a good > price. Reducing the licence price to one tenth what it is today could mean the > revenues for the company reduce to one tenth too, which means the development > team might need to reduce to around one tenth what it is.

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Konstantin Shegunov
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 12:22 AM Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Aside from issues with Patreon's reputation I was not aware of such, but I'm going to take your word for it. > Besides, I was thinking more along the lines of something that could > integrate with other OSS tools (e.g. GitHub). >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread NIkolai Marchenko
I personally want a goal oriented fundraiser model. Like "revamp qtwidgets", "do a round of serious bugfixes in qml" etc On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:23 AM Matthew Woehlke wrote: > On 29/01/2020 17.13, Konstantin Shegunov wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:55 PM Matthew Woehlke wrote: > >> We

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 29/01/2020 17.13, Konstantin Shegunov wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:55 PM Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> We need more open-source-meets-kickstarter... > > ehm, Patreon? Aside from issues with Patreon's reputation, there's a reason I wrote "kickstarter". I can't think of any instance where

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Konstantin Shegunov
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:55 PM Matthew Woehlke wrote: > We need more open-source-meets-kickstarter... > ehm, Patreon? ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 29/01/2020 12.12, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: > BTW: in the past I would have convinced one of my customers to buy > support for the Open Source version if it had been available. If there > was a simple possibility to buy a single support incident (say, for > 100Euros) I would even do this

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread NIkolai Marchenko
> You have absolutely no information on how elastic the Qt commercial price is, so kindly don't speculate on what price would be good. Let me pipe in about what people think of Qt's licensing model. I won't call names but I've been contacted just today by someone who has been legally bullied by

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On 20/01/29 04:02, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: [snip] > I wonder where all this love for the Qt installer comes from. I personally > consider “sudo apt-get install -y qtcreator” or “brew install qt-creator” or > “choco install qtcreator" to be vastly superior to using the installer UI, > and very

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On 20/01/29 10:39, ekke wrote: > Am 29.01.20 um 09:57 schrieb Cristián Maureira-Fredes: > > > > I really want to believe that the new startup price is the beginning > > of having ad-hoc pricing for everyone, and hopefully in the future > > we can also see "medium-size company prices" or > >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
On 2020-01-29 17:02, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: You obviously don’t trust that TQtC will treat the data the online-installer either demands or requires with the appropriate confidence. So, shouldn't you build Qt from sources? Your IP address is PII, after all. Why did you trust that The Qt

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
Hi, On 2020-01-29 09:52, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: I understand the video is an exaggeration, Is it? I found it was pretty much bang on. Even for Qt: I just counted - it took me 5 clicks, most of them not very intuitive, to download the Qt installer I currently need (Linux 32bit on a

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:52:00 PST Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: > Since TQtC has commercial costumers, we will internally fork > the latest bug fix release, and will start adding patches on > top of that on request of the costumers, but hey! all those > patches will be on Gerrit, so if

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:25:22 PST Filippo Cucchetto wrote: > Qt should find a good balance between licensing costs and investors. > Taking JetBrains as an example of similar (profitable) company you can see > that for a single developer all their tools suite costs 600 euros yearly >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 22.27, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 08:09:00 PST Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> I agree... somewhat. Where I disagree is that I would go even further >> and suggest rethinking their entire business model. Maybe look at >> companies with a strong and successful open

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 29/01/20 19:02, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > You obviously don’t trust that TQtC will treat the data the online-installer > either demands or requires with the appropriate confidence. So, shouldn't you > build Qt from sources? Your IP address is PII, after all. Why did you trust > that The Qt

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Benjamin TERRIER
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 17:02, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > > On 29 Jan 2020, at 15:20, Benjamin TERRIER wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 14:10, Cristián Maureira-Fredes < > cristian.maureira-fre...@qt.io> wrote: > >> > >> but for Windows/macOS this might have three solutions (maybe more): > >> -

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:09:25 PST Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos via Development wrote: > Hi Thiago, > > On 29/01/2020 04:25, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > The source code on download.qt.io remains anonymously accessible. > > How do you know that? > What would prevent The Qt Company to use Qt

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos via Development
On 29/01/2020 17:02, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: On 29 Jan 2020, at 15:20, Benjamin TERRIER wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 14:10, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: but for Windows/macOS this might have three solutions (maybe more): - Using package managers that provide Qt, - Download and compile

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 11.37, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > The Qt Company is a public company ...well, that may not be helping. How many of the shareholders both care about the community and are sufficiently involved to make those feelings known? > Given how significant the Qt Company contribution to Qt

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Robert Loehning
Am 29.01.20 um 09:52 schrieb Cristián Maureira-Fredes: > I think nobody at Qt will be so irresponsible of not notifying > security patches, and I'm certain we will work around this issue, > to maybe distributed in a better way for Open Source users. Hi Cristián, what exactly do you consider a

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Volker Hilsheimer
> On 29 Jan 2020, at 15:20, Benjamin TERRIER wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 14:10, Cristián Maureira-Fredes > wrote: >> >> but for Windows/macOS this might have three solutions (maybe more): >> - Using package managers that provide Qt, >> - Download and compile Qt by themselves, >> - Create

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Benjamin TERRIER
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 14:10, Cristián Maureira-Fredes < cristian.maureira-fre...@qt.io> wrote: > > but for Windows/macOS this might have three solutions (maybe more): > - Using package managers that provide Qt, > - Download and compile Qt by themselves, > - Create an account and use the

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Kyle Edwards via Development
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 13:44 +, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: > Hey Kyle, > > thanks for your answer, > out of curiosity, are there some past business models > that failed inside Kitware? or it has been support only since > the beginning? > > What I'm trying to find out is that if maybe

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 1/29/20 2:27 PM, Kyle Edwards via Development wrote: > On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 08:20 +0100, Elvis Stansvik wrote: >> Just want to add here: Even if CMake is probably the Kitware project >> with the largest number of users if counting developers, I don't >> think >> it's their flagship product.

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Kyle Edwards via Development
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 08:20 +0100, Elvis Stansvik wrote: > Just want to add here: Even if CMake is probably the Kitware project > with the largest number of users if counting developers, I don't > think > it's their flagship product. That would be the VTK framework (2500 > classes, 1 MLoC) and

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 1/29/20 2:01 PM, Andras Mantia via Development wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:25:40 PM EET Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: >> This is nothing new Giuseppe, >> people actively using Qt will have Qt accounts because they either >> use our JIRA, and also Gerrit, son for those

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 1/29/20 10:36 AM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > Il 29/01/20 09:52, Cristián Maureira-Fredes ha scritto: >> >> Currently, you can create a Qt Account with your email >> and a password, when you received the email, you confirm by clicking on >> the link, and then you can optionally

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi Alberto, No, that is not the plan. For open-source user all releases are to be similar. New patch releases come until the next feature release is out. For commercial license holders, there will be additional patch releases available for selected Qt versions (Qt 5.15, Qt 6.2, ...) Yours,

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 29/01/20 13:02, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Clarification: we'll be moving to "all commits land first on dev and are > cherry-picked out to other branches that need them" in place of our > present merge-based module. Where Cristián says "all those patches will > be on Gerrit", they'll be on dev

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Tuukka Turunen
" will the owners of a commercial license be given access to the branch? " => Yes. Yours, Tuukka On 29.1.2020, 13.21, "Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development" wrote: Hi, Il 29/01/20 11:02, Edward Welbourne ha scritto: > They'll be cherry-picked > from there to a

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi Antonio, Like the announcement says: "Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to commercial customers." There is no plan currently to change ongoing Qt 5.9 LTS or Qt 5.12 LTS support period. Qt 5.12 is currently in Strict phase, next step moving to Very

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Hi, Il 29/01/20 11:02, Edward Welbourne ha scritto: They'll be cherry-picked from there to a (presumably) private branch (maybe on a private repo), so you won't necessarily see the cherry-picked versions, only the dev versions. So any time the cherry-pick requires adaptation to the LTS, those

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Antonio Larrosa
On 27/1/20 15:34, Lars Knoll wrote: > One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases, where the LTS part of a > release is in the future going to be restricted to commercial customers. All > bug fixes will (as agreed on the Qt Contributor Summit) go into dev first. > Backporting bug fixes

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Edward Welbourne
Il 29/01/20 09:52, Cristián Maureira-Fredes ha scritto: >> Regarding the LTS decision, you can take it from another point of >> view: 5.15 will only have 2 or 3 bug fixing releases, and so will all >> the LTS versions in the future. Since TQtC has commercial costumers, >> we will internally fork

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Robin Burchell
[ disclaimer: I wrote this in the middle of a headache last night, so I hope this is understandable ] On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > Would making Qt cheaper make it more likely that the Qt Company becomes > a sustainable business? Would giving a few licenses out

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread ekke
Am 29.01.20 um 09:57 schrieb Cristián Maureira-Fredes: I really want to believe that the new startup price is the beginning of having ad-hoc pricing for everyone, and hopefully in the future we can also see "medium-size company prices" or "freelancer developer licenses", but such decisions

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Il 29/01/20 09:52, Cristián Maureira-Fredes ha scritto: Currently, you can create a Qt Account with your email and a password, when you received the email, you confirm by clicking on the link, and then you can optionally enter your information. First Name and Last Name are required, but then

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos via Development
Hi Thiago, On 29/01/2020 04:25, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Monday, 27 January 2020 23:59:10 PST Christian Gagneraud wrote: And that's really bad news How many wget will get broken? This cannot be true, Lars, tell me that download.qt.io will still work w/o login/password. Please! The source

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 1/29/20 9:25 AM, Filippo Cucchetto wrote: > Qt should find a good balance between licensing costs and investors. > Taking JetBrains as an example of similar (profitable) company you can > see that for a single developer all their tools suite costs 600 euros yearly > decreasing to 400 after 3

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-29 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 1/29/20 8:29 AM, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > Am 27.01.2020 um 15:34 schrieb Lars Knoll: >> Hi all, >> [snip] >> The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required >> for binary packages. Source code will continue to be available as >> currently. This will simplify

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Mathias Hasselmann
Am 27.01.2020 um 15:34 schrieb Lars Knoll: Hi all, The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt will be offered in the future. Please check out https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 . The change consists of three parts. One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases,

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Elvis Stansvik
Den ons 29 jan. 2020 kl 06:46 skrev Thiago Macieira : > > On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:03:49 PST André Somers wrote: > > On 29/01/2020 04:27, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > So you're advocating being acquired by a bigger company that has a > > > different business and regards Qt only as a means to

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Ville Voutilainen
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 20:03, Tim Murison wrote: > > > > The Qt Company is a public company; we are not yet profitable, but things > > are getting there. Given how significant the Qt Company contribution to Qt > > is, making it a sustainable business should be in the interest of anyone > >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:03:49 PST André Somers wrote: > On 29/01/2020 04:27, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > So you're advocating being acquired by a bigger company that has a > > different business and regards Qt only as a means to an end? > > > > Can you spell "Nokia" ? > > Can you explain

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:02:10 PST André Somers wrote: > Hi, > > Just buy the commercial licence upfront, or release as Open Source. > > So, you think it is reasonable that a company that has been using Open > Source for a while successfully, but now would like to expand their > application

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread André Somers
On 29/01/2020 04:27, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 08:09:00 PST Matthew Woehlke wrote: I agree... somewhat. Where I disagree is that I would go even further and suggest rethinking their entire business model. Maybe look at companies with a strong and successful open source

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread André Somers
Hi, On 29/01/2020 04:23, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 10:01:43 PST Tim Murison wrote: 2. Don’t scare people off before they even start. Much lower initial pricing, no historical licensing, more distant ramps for price increases. Historical licensing cannot go away so

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:52:49 PST Tino Pyssysalo wrote: > It is also possible to transfer the qtaccount.ini file to a CI machine, > which removes the need for manual/interactive login. The qtaccount.ini just > contains the hash of the password. I suggest you be very careful in suggesting

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 02:07:00 PST NIkolai Marchenko wrote: > There will be no offline installer for non paying people. That is the > hurdle. Did you even read the actual blog post? No. I assumed the relevant information was in both places. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT)

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 08:09:00 PST Matthew Woehlke wrote: > I agree... somewhat. Where I disagree is that I would go even further > and suggest rethinking their entire business model. Maybe look at > companies with a strong and successful open source story. (Say, isn't > there one of those

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 27 January 2020 23:59:10 PST Christian Gagneraud wrote: > And that's really bad news How many wget will get broken? > This cannot be true, Lars, tell me that download.qt.io will still work w/o > login/password. Please! The source code on download.qt.io remains anonymously

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 10:01:43 PST Tim Murison wrote: > 2. Don’t scare people off before they even start. Much lower initial > pricing, no historical licensing, more distant ramps for price increases. Historical licensing cannot go away so long as companies develop with the Open Source

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 09:03:43 PST Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > With current process some contributors make efforts to ensure that their bug > fixes are applied to all branches that are still open, even if it includes > dealing with source conflicts. If LTS branches are not public, it might >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Richard Weickelt
>> Maybe you all have great ideas that we missed though. What kind of change do >> you think would give companies a really good reason to buy a license, without >> at the same time hurting the community? I wonder if selling per-developer licenses is still a sustainable business model at all. We

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Tim Murison
> The Qt Company is a public company; we are not yet profitable, but things are > getting there. Given how significant the Qt Company contribution to Qt is, > making it a sustainable business should be in the interest of anyone that > wants to see Qt continue to be a successful and evolving

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 12.03, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > 28.01.2020, 19:57, "Matthew Woehlke" : >> On 28/01/2020 11.07, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >>>  But it will discourage contributions, and encourage competition from >>>  other Qt consulting companies >> >> At this point, I'm not sure that's a *bad*

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Jason H
) There's been a lot of taking away and not a lot of providing. Is Qt still useful? Sure, but the vector is pointing in the wrong direction. > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 9:34 AM > From: "Lars Knoll" > To: "Qt development mailing list" > Subject: [Developmen

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Benjamin TERRIER
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 17:37, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > > > The Qt Company is a public company; we are not yet profitable, but things > are getting there. Given how significant the Qt Company contribution to Qt > is, making it a sustainable business should be in the interest of anyone > that

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
28.01.2020, 19:57, "Matthew Woehlke" : > On 28/01/2020 11.07, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >>  But it will discourage contributions, and encourage competition from >>  other Qt consulting companies > > At this point, I'm not sure that's a *bad* thing... I'm pretty sure that "discourage

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 11.07, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > But it will discourage contributions, and encourage competition from > other Qt consulting companies At this point, I'm not sure that's a *bad* thing... > (I've written more on that here: >

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Volker Hilsheimer
> On 28 Jan 2020, at 17:07, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > On 28/01/2020 02.46, Bogdan Vatra via Development wrote: >> Folks, you have to understand that The Qt Company must pay its developers! > > Sure... but how's that working out for them under their current business > model? Is twisting the

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 10.55, NIkolai Marchenko wrote: >> Won't someone please step up and do it for us?" > > Which is why I don't understand how the proposed model is supposed to help > TQtC and the community. > A lot of stuff they are dropping for opensource users will simply move to > less trusted

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 02.46, Bogdan Vatra via Development wrote: > Folks, you have to understand that The Qt Company must pay its developers! Sure... but how's that working out for them under their current business model? Is twisting the screws even tighter on customers that (based on my impression from

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 27/01/20 17:34, Lars Knoll wrote: > The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt will be offered in the > future. Please check out https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 . [...] > None of these changes should affect how Qt is being developed. There won’t be > any changes to

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread NIkolai Marchenko
> Won't someone please step up and do it for us?" Which is why I don't understand how the proposed model is supposed to help TQtC and the community. A lot of stuff they are dropping for opensource users will simply move to less trusted and perhaps less stable sources but will still be perfectly

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 28/01/2020 01.37, Benjamin TERRIER wrote: > You might have missed the info because it is in the blog post, but not in > Lars email: > > There will be no more open source offline installer. Correction: there will be no offline installer *provided by TQtC*. Like Nikolai¹, what I expect to

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread André Somers
On 28/01/2020 10:52, Christian Kandeler wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:09:43 +0100 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: Il 27/01/20 16:57, Benjamin TERRIER ha scritto: *We do hope that this eases your concerns, and that we can continue with your trust*.

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! El mar., 28 ene. 2020 10:46, Bogdan Vatra escribió: > În ziua de marți, 28 ianuarie 2020, la 15:26:34 EET, Lisandro Damián > Nicanor > Pérez Meyer a scris: > > Hi! > > > > On 20/01/27 06:18, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > On segunda-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2020 14:48:17 PST Alexander Akulich

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Bogdan Vatra via Development
În ziua de marți, 28 ianuarie 2020, la 15:26:34 EET, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer a scris: > Hi! > > On 20/01/27 06:18, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On segunda-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2020 14:48:17 PST Alexander Akulich wrote: > > > I would expect a significant negative effect on the

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On 20/01/27 02:34, Lars Knoll wrote: > Hi all, [snip] > The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required for > binary packages. Source code will continue to be available as currently. This > will simplify distribution and integration with the Marketplace. In addition, > we

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! On 20/01/27 06:18, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On segunda-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2020 14:48:17 PST Alexander Akulich wrote: > > I would expect a significant negative effect on the quality of Qt > > shipped in Linux distributions and thus negative effect on the > > Qt-based applications and Qt

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On 20/01/27 03:00, Tuukka Turunen wrote: > > Hi Ekke, > > Currently Qt MQTT is not part of Qt for Device Creator or Application > Development product, see: https://www.qt.io/features > > Huge amount of other libraries are included, but unfortunately MQTT is only > available as part of the Qt

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On 20/01/28 01:51, coroberti . wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:01 PM ekke wrote: > > > > Am 28.01.20 um 11:14 schrieb coroberti .: > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Konstantin Shegunov > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>> The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread coroberti .
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:01 PM ekke wrote: > > Am 28.01.20 um 11:14 schrieb coroberti .: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Konstantin Shegunov > > wrote: > >> > >> > >>> The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer a > >>> lower priced product for small

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread Mark De Wit
my cause either...) Mark -Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Lars Knoll Sent: 27 January 2020 14:35 To: Qt development mailing list Subject: [Development] Changes to Qt offering Hi all, The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt will be offered in the fu

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread NIkolai Marchenko
Also, they really should do this all for LGPL licenses only. It makes no sense to enforce all these restrictions on the projects that don't generate any revenue at all. The model isn't realistic not only for small businesses, it actively punishes open source development where the people involved

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-28 Thread ekke
Am 28.01.20 um 11:14 schrieb coroberti .: On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Konstantin Shegunov wrote: The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer a lower priced product for small businesses. That small business product is btw not limited to mobile like the

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