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Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by Rochus on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:38AM (#23378908)
Are you sure? Where did you read that?
Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by shakna on Monday June 01, 2020 @08:55PM (#23385978)
Here it is from the KDE discussion [0], and from Qt themselves [1].

> 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]

> 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. [1]

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

[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by Rochus on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:05AM (#23389131)
Thanks, but only the "LTS for paying customers only" is decided. The other statement was just an idea which wasn't implemented, as far as I know.
Re:Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Fr... by shakna on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:56AM (#23390466)
It's on Qt's announcement page. That's a pretty definitive statement.