[Development] New KDE Free Qt Foundation agreement and changes to Qt

[Andreas Aardal Hanssen]

2016-01-13 12:15 GMT+01:00 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com>:

> Hi everybody,
> The Qt Company has over the last days signed a new and updated agreement
> with the KDE Free Foundation. With this new agreement come some adjustments
> to the open source licensing of Qt. Basically LGPLv3 will in the future be
> our main license for frameworks, GPLv3 for the tooling.
> At the same time, The Qt Company committed to open source the currently
> commercial only parts of Qt for Application Development under the GPLv3 and
> make those available to the open source community.
> I have discussed this change with many of our Maintainers over the last
> week, getting a lot of positive feedback to this change.
>

With Qt 5.6 being LTS and 5.7 removing licenses from modules, is there
enough thunder in 6.0 to get people away from the cooosy 5.6 release? ;-) I
mean - judging solely on historical events, the .0s have needed some time
to stabilize and the big bang features typically don't show up in the very
latest minor releases.

Andreas
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