[Interest] Qt 5.15 pull out of open source?!

[Yuvraaj Kelkar]

I hope what Robert meant was that if you want someone to fix bugs for you on an old LTS, then you have to pay for the support.
Because that would make a LOT of sense.

Thanks,
-Uv

On Jan 7 2021, at 11:12 am, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > No, 5.15 is still open source. It is just that if you want to keep using that
> > version *AND* want updates, you will have to pay *for the updates*,
>
> How would that work?
> Either the updates are also Open Source, in which cases nobody could
> prevent the first person to pay for it from redistributing them (and
> many use cases would even REQUIRE them to do that), or the updates
> are not Open Source and therefore not updates, ya know…
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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