[Development] Commercial LTS Qt 5.15.4 released

[Jyrki Yli-Nokari]

The decision will eventually alienate OS community which will force current licensees consider the viabilty of the platform for their next generation of products. There is a lot of air in the QtC stock price as a result of the new licensees and how well Qt/Qml fits the needs. I certainly hope that the decision will be reconsidered before any of the big licensees switches to react native.
As a Qt and React developer I can say that the entry barrier is high but at least Facebook is certainly more predictable platform provider than a single Finnish company from strategic infra investment standpoint.

I am not a license holder and am a long time critic of QtC licensing to startups.

And I love Qml

> Jyrki Yli-Nokari <jyrkiylinokari at gmail.com> kirjoitti 13.5.2021 kello 10.22:
> 
> The decision will eventually alienate OS community which will force current licensees consider the viabilty of the platform for their next generation of products. There is a lot of air in the QtC stock price as a result of the new licensees and how well Qt/Qml fits the needs. I certainly hope that the decision will be reconsidered before any of the big licensees switches to react native.
> As a Qt and React developer I can say that the entry barrier is high but at least Facebook is certainly more predictable platform provider than a single Finnish company from strategic infra investment standpoint.
> 
> I am not a license holder and am a long time critic of QtC licensing to startups.
> 
> And I love Qml
> 
>> André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl> kirjoitti 12.5.2021 kello 22.22:
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>> 
>>> On 12-05-2021 17:51, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 12 May 2021 08:30:52 PDT Frank Hemer wrote:
>>>>> On Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2021 17:26:50 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>>>>> Even maintainers who like me don't get access to the source, it's
>>>>>> important
>>>>>> to know the release was made.
>>>>> Not having access to sources for maintainers is simply ridiculous.
>>> The problem is licensing, not Qt Company's willingness. They offered when this
>>> all began. But since it's not open source, I can't look at it.
>>> 
>> When then means that QtC is committing things into modules without that modules' maintainer being able to look at it for legal reasons. Ridiculous indeed. It would make me question (had I been a maintainer, which I am certainly not) if I'd want to keep that hat on at all.
>> 
>> André
>> 
>> 
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