Qt and Open Source

Re:Qt and Open Source by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:14AM (#22821436)

It's interesting, I had no idea this is still an issue. For the record, this is the reason a couple of folks started Gnome and GTK over 20 years ago.

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Re:Qt and Open Source by simion314 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:26AM (#22821505)

No, at that time Qt was not free software. Now Qt is free software and you can fork it and do whatever you want.

The issue seems to be that there are many people that use Qt for free including companies but they won't pay with money or contributions, so if a work will happen except KDE there will be few contributors. Qt includes a version of Webkit that is used in some application, so you need someone to keep on top of webkit security issues and backport the fixes.

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Re:Qt and Open Source by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:27PM (#22827388)

> many people that use Qt for free including companies but they won't pay with money or contributions

That is one of the things that free software allows, yeah.

> so if a work will happen except KDE there will be few contributors

Even if that's true, is KDE not enough?

> Qt includes a version of Webkit that is used in some application, so you need someone to keep on top of webkit security issues and backport the fixes.

I assumed that the QT end of that was a thin wrapper around upstream webkit; is it really that involved?

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