[Development] Changes to Qt offering

[NIkolai Marchenko]

I am afraid I do not have other words for this model than : absolutely
disgusting and a complete dick move. Especially login requirement for
binaries.
I don't even understand how distros are now supposed to keep qt code safe
since constantly pushing qt version up is recipe for problems and there
will be no critical bugfixes to branches that distros were stabilized at.


On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:35 PM Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt will be offered in the
> future. Please check out https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
> .
>
> The change consists of three parts.
>
> One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases, where the LTS part
> of a release is in the future going to be restricted to commercial
> customers. All bug fixes will (as agreed on the Qt Contributor Summit) go
> into dev first. Backporting bug fixes is something that the Qt Company will
> take care of for these LTS branches. We’ve seen over the past that LTS
> support is something mainly required by large companies, and should
> hopefully help us get some more commercial support for developing Qt
> further.
>
> The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required for
> binary packages. Source code will continue to be available as currently.
> This will simplify distribution and integration with the Marketplace. In
> addition, we want open source users to contribute to Qt or the Qt
> ecosystem. Doing so is only possible with a valid Qt Account (Jira, code
> review and the forums all require a Qt Account).
>
> The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer a
> lower priced product for small businesses. That small business product is
> btw not limited to mobile like the one Digia had some years ago, but covers
> all of Qt for Device Creation.
>
> None of these changes should affect how Qt is being developed. There won’t
> be any changes to Open Governance or the open development model.
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
>
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