Re:Qt 5.15 LTS
by shakna on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:48AM
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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.
> 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...