[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 103, Issue 18

[Roland Hughes]

On 4/9/20 3:11 PM, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> As some people here might already know, the KDE Free Qt foundation made a very
> concerning announcement yesterday:
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html

You know, there was a rather length discussion on this list about Qt 
licensing recently.

Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt, Commercial developers

It might have changed names during the conversation. You can find the 
archive here

https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/

Myself and others speculated that TQt was looking to end OpenSource Qt. 
I even made a comment I was surprised KDE hadn't kicked TQt to the curb 
and suggested it was well past time to fork an older (pre QML) version 
of Qt into a new project kicking TQt to the curb.

Strict interpretation of the commercial license means that if you 
purchase a commercial Qt product you cannot use it on KDE, nor can you 
use Doxygen or any of the other OpenSource Qt projects with it. In 
particular many on this list had the same issues as pointed out in the 
link above.

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* Fixing the incompatibility between paid Qt license terms and using or
contributing to Open Source
(“Prohibited Combination” in https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/ )
* Fixing the license incompatibility between the Qt Design Studio (which is
only partly Free Software) and our existing contract with the company

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Please communicate back to the kdefreeqtfoundation that it is time to 
fork an old (pre-QML) version of Qt, possibly even changing the name, 
and leave TQt (however it is supposed to be capitalized) in the dust. 
QML was a bad idea from the beginning. Many of the later add-ons were 
diverting Qt into markets without enough developers to support. In 
trying to be all things to everyone a package generally fails.

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