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Re:Qt 6.0 by Fnoord on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:41PM (#25351739)
Well, if the frying pan has bugs, customers are entitled to bug fixes, for free, from a legal PoV. After all, these are bugs ie. problems in the program.

New features, sure, ask money for that, fair enough.

Which is why I would be OK with Qt 6 having a new license model, as long as all bugs fixed in 6 are backported to previous stable (at least) ie. 5.x, without 5.x getting relicensed.

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Re:Qt 6.0 by stjohnswarts on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:24PM (#25353618)
What country are you from where bug fixes are guaranteed to be free forever? I am not aware of any country in the Americas or Europe that guarantees that unless said company enters a contractual agreement to provide you with bug fixes for free forever?
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Re:Qt 6.0 by Fnoord on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:27AM (#25358782)
Security and reliability fixes should be free for consumers in EU. Else the product is not compliant to law (warranty lasts longer than 2 years contrary to popular belief). That law does not get enforced is unfortunate.
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