[Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Bo Thorsen <bo at fioniasoftware.dk> wrote:
> 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 :)

A quick update from qt-project: Digia may not be contributing a lot to
new development (yet) but they have been contributing quite a bit (a
quick grep shows ~1500 patches with them as author) to Qt4 and they
have been doing a great job so far.

Girish