[Interest] Fwd: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

[Benjamin TERRIER]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 17:02, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>
> >    - What about the KDE Free Qt Foundation and its agreement with The Qt
> >    Company that states that if The Qt Company were to release a
> commercial
> > Qt version without releasing a corresponding open source version
> >    within 12 months, then Qt will be available under a BSD license?
>
> It does not say that. It says that the KDE Free Qt Foundation receives the
> code under the BSD, not that the Foundation releases to the rest of the
> world
> as BSD. It can choose to give to a single entity under that licence to re-
> bootstrap the commercial ecosystem. Also note this only applies to the
> "KDE
> Windowing System", which are systems that KDE (rather, Plasma Desktop
> these
> days) runs on. The mobile platforms are not included.
>

Android is included  at the same level than "KDE Windowing System" i.e.
"Core platforms".
Also iOS, Windows and other platforms are included in the agreement as
"Additional platforms".
Sections 1.1, 5 and 6 of the agreement make it clear that such "Additional
platforms" are covered by the agreement, as the code
for these platforms must be release *to the public* under a BSD license if
they are not supported anymore and
not replaced by a "successor platform".
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