[Interest] Is Nokia officially done with Qt?

[d3fault]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com
> wrote:

> On sexta-feira, 15 de junho de 2012 11.42.07, d3fault wrote:
> > The Qt Trademark and the Nokia Corporation might die (except Qt won't
> ever
> > 'officially' die. It's in Nokia/Microsoft's best interest to not let the
> > BSD Clause (
> http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php)
> > ever get triggered. They'll release a 1-byte patch once per year, or
> maybe
> > a small bugfix or something, and it'll never get triggered)
>
> The foundation agreement requires a significant release.
>

I see law's not your specialty either.
A lawyer could easily argue that a bug fix is significant. Or maybe they do
a couple of bugfixes, and/or some tiny feature commits?
How many of these tiny bug fixes/features until the release is considered
significant? Who's the judge of that?
The BSD Clause was a great idea in theory, but the implementation failed
horribly. Didn't consider a buyout from a competitor who just sits on it
[with yearly 'fake' releases].

Oh well, LGPL is still usable in a lot of business use cases.


....or are you baiting/trolling me??? you didn't actually think.... well I
just don't know anymore...



and what do you say Thiago, about leading a fork, should the need arise (or
has it already?)? Imo do it through Thiago-personal, not Thiago-intel

d3fault
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