[Development] Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January

[Calogero Mauceri]

As far as I understand the next LTS release will be Qt 6.2.
If 5.15 will not receive any more patches open source users are left
without LTS till 6.2 is released. Am I correct?

>From now on, will LTS releases be available only for commercial users?

Thanks,
Calogero

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:59 PM Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:

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> Hi Roland,
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> Just so that there is no misunderstanding Qt 5.15.2 release stays
> available for all users, it is just the upcoming LTS phase patch releases
> that will be commercial only. In essence for the open-source users Qt 5.15
> is similar to Qt 5.13 and Qt 5.14 (non-LTS releases).
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> Yours,
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>                 Tuukka
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> *From: *Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org>
> *Date: *Monday, 4. January 2021 at 16.33
> *To: *Qt Development ML <development at qt-project.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Development] Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing
> the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January
>
> Am Mo., 4. Jan. 2021 um 14:38 Uhr schrieb Benjamin TERRIER <
> b.terrier at gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 14:14, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at gmx.de>
> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:55:03AM +0000, Tuukka Turunen wrote:
> >With Qt 6.0.0 released and the first patch release (Qt 6.0.1) coming
> >soon, it is time to enter the commercial-only LTS phase for Qt 5.15
> >LTS.
> >
> that's some brilliant timing, given that no actual qt 6 release even
> exists yet. (yeah, 6.0 is a joke given that you intend to break binary
> compat in 6.1 - that's the wisdom of linking r&d's bonus payments to
> release dates even for major versions).
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> Yes, it would have made sense that the Qt Company waits for all modules to
> be available in Qt 6 before dropping the 5.15 open support...
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> I cannot express how much I agree to this. Qt6 has half of the modules
> required by my project not yet available, so upgrading is not possible. On
> the other hand, 5.15 LTS is closed for the open source users - this is
> quite a heavy restriction for me since my project is non-profit and open
> source. Buying a commercial license is not an option.
>
> Yes I'm aware that I'm a small fish in a large pond and QtC won't care
> about my contributions or me as a developer using Qt since there is no
> profit to make with me. On the other hand, I will carefully think about
> using Qt again in future projects or recommend it to other people.
>
> This is not a complaint. Its your business and your rules. I'm just trying
> to express the thoughts of a bigger but usally silent group of open
> source/non-profit users which are directly impacted by this.
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Calogero Mauceri
Software Engineer

Applied Coherent Technology Corporation (ACT)
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