[Qt-interest] [Ann] Nokia to license Qt under LGPL

[Daniel Vérité]

	 Trolltech writes

> Going forward we will speed up the development of Qt using additional
> resources and work in even closer cooperation with the free software
> community. We will do this in a number of ways, including:
> 
> - Employing more Qt developers
> - Opening our source code repository
> - Reducing the overhead needed to make a submission, including no
> longer requiring copyright assignments.
> - Launching a new web infrastructure to support contributions later
> this year.

That's excellent news.

It reminds me of something I often wished existed: user contributed 
notes to the online documentation. Large OSS projects such as php or 
mysql have it already, and in the case of Qt, IMHO it would be even 
more valuable because of the greater complexity of the API.  Indeed, 
however good the documentation generally is, one sometimes still has to 
spend hours to figure out some idiosyncrasy of some particular function 
of some particular class. Once these hours have been spent, it would be 
nice to have a dedicated place to share the newly acquired bit of 
wisdom, so that the next programmer doesn't go through the same hours 
of trial and error... It is not the same thing as submitting a doc 
patch, as notes can be lengthy, include medium-sized code snippets, be 
heterogeneous, use imperfect english, unlike official docs. It's also 
different from writing in a wiki because the comment has to be attached 
to a particular function, and (as far as I'm aware) there's no wiki 
representing the Qt API.
So if that new web infrastructure supporting user contributions 
included this feature, that would be awesome :)

Best regards,
-- 
 Daniel
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