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Germany — Congrats!
But seems we lost the C/C++ Language maintainer. :(

2012/9/18 Thorbjørn Martsum <tmartsum at gmail.com>

> +1 and thanks for the info :)
>
> Is there an official (and final) count of developers moved from Nokia to
> Digia?
> Is it assumable that the current maintainers keep their positions within
> Digia?
> (and in that case ... the maintainer list seems to need an update  ....
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Maintainers )
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I wanted to let you all know that the acquisition of Qt by Digia has been
>> completed yesterday. Many Trolls in Oslo and Berlin have their first day
>> working for Digia today. In Oslo we had lots of champagne and cake in the
>> morning, giving us a pretty good start into the day ;-)
>>
>> You will from now on see all the developers that have transferred over to
>> Digia posting and submitting code with their brand new Digia email
>> addresses.
>>
>> This change should for the most part not have any effects on
>> qt-project.org, but there are a few formal and legal changes happening
>> now:
>>
>> 1. The CLA's of all contributors haven been assigned from Nokia to Digia.
>> This is mainly an FYI, as nobody who has signed a CLA will need to take any
>> explicit action here.
>>
>> 2. All traffic to qt.nokia.com will be redirected to qt.digia.com.
>>
>> 3. Digia has taken responsibility for the qt-project.org infrastructure
>> and committed itself to continue funding it.
>>
>> 4. Digia has entered into the KDE Free Qt foundation agreement and is
>> from now on bound by it.
>>
>> 5. With the acquisition, the Nokia copyrights on the Qt code base all
>> transfer to Digia. Because of this we will need to change the copyright
>> headers in all Qt source files from Nokia to Digia. In addition, we will
>> re-add a small clause about commercial licensing into the headers to list
>> all possible licensing variants there. The reason for adding the commercial
>> piece is mainly transparency (because these are the possible licensing
>> options). In addition, this change will enable us to avoid having to
>> rewrite licensing headers during the release creating in the future and
>> keep the same, unchanged source files in all releases (OSS and commercial).
>>
>> With these changes the new licensing header for QObject will look as
>> follows:
>>
>>
>> /****************************************************************************
>> **
>> ** Copyright (C) 2012 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
>> ** Contact: http://qt-project.org/legal
>> **
>> ** This file is part of the QtCore module of the Qt Toolkit.
>> **
>> ** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
>> ** Commercial License Usage
>> ** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in
>> ** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the
>> ** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in
>> ** a written agreement between you and Digia.  For licensing terms and
>> ** conditions see http://qt.digia.com/licensing.  For further information
>> ** use the contact form at http://qt.digia.com/contact-us.
>> **
>> ** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
>> ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser
>> ** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software
>> ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the
>> ** packaging of this file.  Please review the following information to
>> ** ensure the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 requirements
>> ** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html.
>> **
>> ** In addition, as a special exception, Digia gives you certain additional
>> ** rights.  These rights are described in the Digia Qt LGPL Exception
>> ** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package.
>> **
>> ** GNU General Public License Usage
>> ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU
>> ** General Public License version 3.0 as published by the Free Software
>> ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in the
>> ** packaging of this file.  Please review the following information to
>> ** ensure the GNU General Public License version 3.0 requirements will be
>> ** met: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
>> **
>> **
>> ** $QT_END_LICENSE$
>> **
>>
>> ****************************************************************************/
>>
>> As you can see, it's basically the same header as before, will all
>> occurrences of Nokia replaced by Digia, the section about "Commercial
>> License Usage" added and the contact page changed to qt-project.org/legalso that we have a better landing page for legal questions (that page is
>> being created right now…).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lars
>>
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