Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-13 Thread Eberhard W Lisse
I personally don’t care what is under the hood, because I don’t understand any of it, I am an elderly Gynecologist dabbling a little in Perl and (even less in) LaTeX. But as a long time Open Source user (privately and in my practice) I share the annoyance about this reversal of policy by the

Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-12 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Sonntag, den 12.04.2020, 13:59 +0200 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > I am not sure whether we have real data showing that LTS versions > are > better. But if they are somebody who owns a license could make > binary > distributions using this LTS. > > Let's see what happens. The Qt company

Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 12/04/2020 à 12:41, Eberhard W Lisse a écrit : I personally don’t care what is under the hood, because I don’t understand any of it, I am an elderly Gynecologist dabbling a little in Perl and (even less in) LaTeX. But as a long time Open Source user (privately and in my practice) I share

Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 12 avril 2020 00:35:02 GMT+02:00, Dr Eberhard Lisse a écrit : >In the sense, of "how much would the crowdfunding be?" As a free software project, I am not sure this is a path we want to take. Since we do not distribute only binaries, it is our users who would need a license. But only

Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-12 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
In the sense, of "how much would the crowdfunding be?" el On 2020-04-10 18:08 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > What license would the development team need? > > el > > On 2020-01-28 17:33 , Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ): >> >> ... >>

Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-10 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
What license would the development team need? el On 2020-01-28 17:33 , Pavel Sanda wrote: > Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ): > > ... > Long-term-supported (LTS) releases will become available to commercial > licensees only > ... > Starting with Qt 5.15, long term

Re: Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-04-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:33:31PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ): > > ... > Long-term-supported (LTS) releases will become available to commercial > licensees only > ... > Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be

Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

2020-01-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ): ... Long-term-supported (LTS) releases will become available to commercial licensees only ... Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive