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

[Knoll Lars]

On 17/09/14 20:00, "André Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl> wrote:
>>Op 17 sep. 2014 om 18:05 heeft Thiago Macieira
>><thiago.macieira at intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote:
>>> Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the
>>> source code. So yes, the current qt.io site is very misleading there.
>> 
>>> They just don't have the right to publish closed source software based
>>> on those modified sources without releasing those modifications to
>>>their 
>>> users (well, sort off. It is of course a bit more involved than that.)
>> 
>> That last sentence is true, but unrelated to making modifications.
>>Every user 
>> of Qt under the LGPL must publish the version of Qt they used,
>>REGARDLESS of 
>> whether they modified it or not. They have to publish it on their own
>>servers.
>> 
>> Pointing to qt-project.org or qt.io servers is not enough to fulfil the
>> requirements of the licence. The licence requires that the distributor
>>of the 
>> software (v2) or the "conveyor" of the software (v3) also offer the
>>source of 
>> the library. It's the responsibility of that person and you cannot pass
>>it 
>> along to someone else.
>> 
>
>Still not quite true, and besides the point too. We were talking about if
>the statement on Qt.io is true. It is not. I was not suggesting an
>alternative. Also note that there is no requirement to offer Qt on your
>own server. There are different ways to fulfill the requirement from the
>license, that is, _if_ somebody requests the sources at all to begin
>with. If we were to decide to send the customer that requests the Qt
>sources a DVD that contains them, that would be legal as far as I
>understand the license. The again, IANAL, and neither are you...

It's supposed to mean that you can modify Qt's source code without having
to release the changes. I agree that the text is not clear enough and it
should be somehow changed.

Cheers,
Lars