[Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

[Bo Thorsen]

Den 18-04-2012 10:33, John Layt skrev:
> It is a trade-off, but not entirely one-way.  They get to sell your code, but
> the money raised goes towards supporting Qt.

Actually, I see this more as a "yes, you can buy commercial support". It 
closes one of the objections my customers have. Of course, I usually 
convince them that I'm all the support they need :) But it is a question 
I've heard so often with OSS software, and it's one of the things 
non-OSS people are concerned about.

It doesn't look like Digia is using this to fund a lot of new Qt 
development, but if they use it to support older Qt versions, this is a 
great thing as well (assuming those patches go to the OSS Qt). People 
paid on OSS projects should do the boring parts :)

Bo Thorsen,
Fionia Software.

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