[PySide] [pyside-dev] Bringing pyside back to Qt Project

[Christian Tismer]

[copied from pyside-dev at googlegroups.com -- replies go there]

Dear Pyside2 contributors,

 

As you might know, Pyside was originally developed for Nokia while it
was the owner of the Qt technology. When Nokia sold Qt to Digia (and now
The Qt Company), all the copyrights over the original Pyside code for Qt
4 got transferred to The Qt Company as well.

 

For different reasons, it was not possible for The Qt Company to push
Pyside forward as much as we would have wished over the last few years.
Fortunately this changed now, and The Qt Company is today in a position,
where it can and will invest into Pyside. The goal is to ensure Pyside
becomes a fully supported part of the Qt product family, with a similar
development and licensing model as the rest of Qt. We want to make sure
Pyside works on new Qt releases when they come out and are committed to
invest long term into the technology.

 

To do so, requires us to be able to license Pyside in the same way as Qt
itself, ie. under both open-source (LGPLv3) and commercial licensing
terms. As you probably know, the Qt Company is doing this for Qt by
developing the product together with the community/ecosystem on
qt-project.org. The reason that development happens on qt-project.org is
that patches pushed to it fall under a contribution agreement (see
http://www.qt.io/contributionagreement/)
<http://www.qt.io/contributionagreement/%29>, allowing the Qt Company to
also have a commercially supported version of Qt, which then funds a lot
of the further development of the product. Please note that the
contribution agreement is not a copyright assignment, so you as a
contributor keep the full rights to the code you developed.

 

Pyside1 has always been hosted on qt-project.org. To make Pyside
available for Qt 5 and a fully supported part of the Qt family will
require us to develop it on qt-project under the Qt Contribution
Agreement. Including the Pyside2 work in this project, would be a great
way to kick start it and create a good and open ecosystem around it from
the start.

 

We, Christian Tismer and the Qt Company, have already agreed to move
Christian’s changes over and to work with the community to achieve this.
We would like to ask you as a contributor to Pyside2 to also consider
contributing your changes to this effort.

 

We believe there will be many advantages to the Pyside community with
this move:

  * The Qt Company will commit some developers full time, to help
    develop Pyside further.
  * The goal is to make Pyside an integral part of new Qt releases.
  * Pyside will get a lot more exposure to developers and end users when
    it becomes part of the officially supported Qt packages
  * The Qt Company will invest into the required testing, QA
    infrastructure and people
  * Full bug tracking through the Qt bug tracking system
  * The Qt Company will help to make sure that Pyside always works with
    the latest Qt releases
  * Of course we will keep Pyside available under open source licensing
    terms, just as free as Qt itself
  * Companies who require this can purchase a commercially licensed
    version of Pyside including commercial support
  * More exposure and visibility to the people working on and
    contributing to Pyside 

We sincerely hope you can help us by agreeing to contribute your changes
to Pyside2 to this project, so that we can create the best Qt support
for Python ever.

 

Please don’t hesitate to ask on this list, if you have any further
questions. We would appreciate if you could provide us with feedback on
this list or in private.

 

To show your support please create a Qt account under
https://login.qt.io/register. Once the registration is complete you can
use the Qt account credentials and log into Qt’s codereview tool where
you have to accept the Contributor agreement. The acceptance process is
described in http://www.qt.io/contributionagreement/.

 

We will then contact each of you individually with details on how to
sign off on your own work within Qt’s code review system.

 

Thank you very much.

 

With best regards,

 

Lars Knoll                                            Christian Tismer

Qt Chief Maintainer                             Main Pyside 2 Contributor

CTO, The Qt Company

 

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