[Qt-interest] Difference between commercial and open source release of Qt 4.7.4

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, 3 de October de 2011 12:23:55 Niels Dekker wrote:
>> I find this a bit surprising. Aren't the commercial release and the open
>> source release of each Qt version supposed to be equivalent (except for
>> their license, of course)?
>
> No. The Qt project only releases the open source version and that's what sets
> the version number.
>
> Digia takes that and makes their own releases. So they released 4.7.4 plus bug
> fixes.
>

That's news to me.

I know of commercial customers who have been using the opensource
downloads and accepting the commercial license (it's more convenient
to find the opensource download link). Should we then not disable the
commercial license query in configure? At-least in 4.8 git, it still
gives me an option to accept commercial license. Is accepting of
commercial license disabled in the opensource packages? People will be
accepting commercial license thinking it's the commercial release.

> Now I agree with you that they should be clear that they apply patches.

For a start, it would greatly help if Digia changed the version to
have the prefix "digia" or "commercial". Can someone from Digia on
this list take care of this, please?

Girish