[Development] Changes to Qt offering

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 22:34:25 CET 2020


On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 23:12, André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl> wrote:
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> On 27/01/2020 22:07, Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 21:56, Dmitriy Purgin <dpurgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> By the way, gathering emails by requiring an account to download the software without any technical reason might be indeed an example of a GDPR violation.
> > I am not a lawyer, but I am unaware of any free software license that
> > gives you a right to download binaries at the terms
> > of your own choosing. Source downloads are a different matter.
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> GDPR has nothing to do with software licenses.

I know, but since there's no free right to download binaries, GDPR
doesn't prevent getting explicit consent before allowing
a download. Would you like me to give people more ideas? :)


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