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

Andre Somers andre at familiesomers.nl
Tue Jul 28 06:19:03 CEST 2015


On 27-7-2015 18:21, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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
> ..."
>
So, the foundation has the right, but not the obligation to do so. So 
they probably will, but that's not an automatic given. Thanks for the 
link and quote.

André




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