Re:Qt and Open Source
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday April 09, 2020 @05:27PM
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> 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?
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?