[Interest] When Microsoft comes to purchase Qt what will be the outcome?

[Jason H]

There's a suicide pact with the community that if Qt ever stops being updated, that it is relicensed under BSD. I believe that "stops being updated" means failing to release two dot (x.y) releases a year. It is relatively foggy in my find, but dates back to the GNOME competitive days and I think the purchase by Nokia. Someone else might remember better...

> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 12:14 PM
> From: "Henry Skoglund" <fromqt at tungware.se>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] When Microsoft comes to purchase Qt what will be the outcome?
>
> Hi, while I am a very happy Qt user, I have this fear that Microsoft 
> will knock on Qt's door with a boatload of money.
> 
> Being old and having gone through some bad experiences with Microsoft, I 
> was one of those who left GitHub for GitLab this summer. But when the 
> bell tolls for Qt, I don't see any alternatives. So, if they call, 
> please just say whatever amount of $$$ Microsoft offers Google will 
> double, or something like that :-)
> 
> Rgrds Henry
> 
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