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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by enriquto on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:26AM (#23322147)
So how does this make Qt "anti open-source"? I'm not saying that they aren't, but they are under no obligation to provide binaries to anybody (under any free software license). Many bona-fide free software packages do not provide binaries at all.
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by shakna on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:48AM (#23322352)
Qt have indicated to KDE that they'll be lagging the open source code behind the binaries by upwards of twelve months. [0]

> But last week, the company suddenly informed both the KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QT Foundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts more pressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice.

[0] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...

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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by vetinari on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:34AM (#23322234)
You won't get any sources to 5.15.x after 5.16 or 6 is out.
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by torarnv on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:42AM (#23322298)
That's incorrect. The 5.15 branch is and will be public. Most if not all changes to that branch will go via the dev (Qt 6) branch, which is also public.
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by vetinari on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:06AM (#23322536)
Straight from the Qt (link above):

> Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive patch-level releases of 5.15 until the next minor release will become available. This means that we will handle Qt 5.15 in the same way as e.g. 5.13 or 5.14 for open source users.

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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by majewsky on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:39AM (#23322275)
So these mirrors don't exist then? https://download.qt.io/static/mirrorlist/
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by vetinari on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:05AM (#23322531)
Again: to 5.15.x after 5.16 or 6 is out.

Or, in more words as Qt pusts it:

> Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive patch-level releases of 5.15 until the next minor release will become available. This means that we will handle Qt 5.15 in the same way as e.g. 5.13 or 5.14 for open source users.

It has nothing to do whether mirrors do exist or not, when there will be nothing to mirror.

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