[Development] Changes to Qt offering

[Benjamin TERRIER]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 23:23, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Correct. Necessary for specific purpose seems to be what article 5
> requires, and then you get explicit consent for that
> specific purpose, and GDPR's articles 5 and 6 are covered (of course
> the rest of article 5's requirements need to be covered).
> You're not necessarily going to like that specific purpose (or the
> outcome of all this, including the consent query),
> but GDPR requirements don't seem too difficult to fulfil, and there's
> nothing particular in the new offering that would
> instantly and obviously go even close to violating GDPR, based on my
> layman reading of it. I don't think GDPR
> will change the course of the offering, so if you want to change that
> course, I think you need a different avenue
> of argumentation.
>

Well it depends on how you interpret the GDPR, a strict interpretation is
that since The Qt Company does
not technically needs email addresses to distribute binary packages,
requiring users' email addresses
does violates the GDPR.

A loose interpretation is that The Qt Company does require the email
addresses for its business model and it is enough to
be GDPR compliant.

I guess we will not know which is the correct one until there is a trial
with a ruling of the CJEU.
Until then I do not see the GDPR changi any company business model and
offering.
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