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

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 7 Jan 2021 12:01:58 -0800 Yuvraaj Kelkar <yuvraaj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yes.  I expect that the license QT is under is NOT the GNU license, but some 
other license.

> 
> 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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