[Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 17 September 2014 13:29:50 André Somers wrote:
> Milian Wolff schreef op 17-9-2014 12:38:
> > On Tuesday 16 September 2014 12:11:26 Knoll Lars wrote:
> >> Hi everybody,
> >> 
> >> I’m happy to tell you that we’re making significant progress towards the
> >> new unified web page that I’ve first been talking about at the
> >> contributor
> >> summit. We just launched the first stage of it on http://qt.io. For now
> >> qt.digia.com is going to redirect to it. I hope you will like the new web
> >> page. Please have a look and give us your feedback.
> >> 
> >> In addition, we also now have a new company name for the Qt part of
> >> Digia.
> >> It’s simply ‘The Qt Company’.
> >> 
> >> For more details check out my blog at
> >> http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/09/16/the-qt-company-introduces-a-unif
> >> ie
> >> d-website-and-20e25-monthly-indie-mobile-package/ and of course
> >> http://qt.io
> > 
> > Hey Lars,
> > 
> > I have a question/request/remark: Currently, on
> > http://www.qt.io/download/, it says that the "community" license of Qt
> > does not give users the "full rights to modify source codes". What you
> > probably mean by that, is that while the FOSS licenses allow you to
> > modify it, you are also required to contribute back. Anyhow, I think this
> > wording is highly confusing and *at least* a popup with explanatory text
> > should added. Or better yet, also add the green tickmark and mention that
> > the contributions must be upstreamed.
> > 
> > We all want contributions by FOSS users of Qt after all, no?
> > 
> > Bye
> 
> That's also nonsense. The changes must be made public to those you have
> given a license to use your software, but that is not the same as having
> to upstream your changes back into the project directly. Sure, that
> would be the ideal model, but it is not always possible and, more to the
> point, is not what the license says.

True. But do we agree that saying FOSS users don't have the "full rights to 
modify source codes" is wrong, or at least misleading? I guess so, considering 
you say "That's *also* nonsense" (emphasis mine).

Bye
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