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

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jul 28 07:28:11 CEST 2015


On Tuesday 28 July 2015 06:19:03 Andre Somers wrote:
> > 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.

Well, the passage is legalese for saying that the Foundation gets all rights 
to the source code. What the Foundation does with the source code is its own 
decision.

It can:
 a) do nothing and let the code die
 b) release it to an open source project under BSD licence
 c) ditto, but using LGPL
 d) give it to a company to commercialise it under the dual licensing scheme 
     again
 e) something else, but the options b, c,and d are the most likely ones

The important thing to note is that the source code reverting to the 
Foundation does not imply neither the end of either the open source project 
nor the end of commercial licensing.

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




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