[Development] Request to delete libibusplatforminputcontextplugin.so from qtbase

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Jul 22 16:56:40 CEST 2015


On Wednesday 22 July 2015 07:20:06 Knoll Lars wrote:
> We couldn’t easily ship it in Qt neither for both practical and legal
> reasons. The practical ones are the items Thiago mentioned. The legal
> reasons are that we can’t make it part of Qt without being under the CLA,
> due to both the KDE Free Qt Foundation), as well as being able to offer it
> under commercial terms to our commercial customers.

I don't see how that is a problem. If that were a problem, you wouldn't be 
able to ship additional, commercial-only modules or allow installation of 
MinGW. So clearly the installer is allowed to install non-Qt things too.

What am I missing?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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