[Development] Qt LTS & C++11 plans (CopperSpice)

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Jul 27 18:21:34 CEST 2015


On Monday 27 July 2015 08:01:53 André Somers wrote:
> I am not a lawer and I don't know the wording of the KDE Free Qt 
> Foundation agreement, but are you sure that in case that agreement is 
> triggered the verion you branched off off will fall under that licence 
> and be the one that will be released under BSD? I'm just wondering if 
> all versions would retroactively be relicenced or just the current 
> code... _If_ it is the latter, you have a problem in your CLA, as you 
> may not have the right to do the BSD relicencing you promissed seeing 
> that you forked Qt 4 and not 5...

https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/images/nokia-agreement-3.jpg

The section 2 says "grants the Foundation [...] the right and license, to use, 
copy, duplicate [...] any and all existing and future Qt Free Edition releases 
..."

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




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