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> the management seems to have had a good opportunity to get rid of its annoying obligations to the open source community. Apparently you don't even read the l
by Nokinside 7y ago
> the management seems to have had a good opportunity to get rid of its annoying obligations to the open source community.
Apparently you don't even read the links you provide.
Qt company can't get rid of the leagal obligations it has to release the software. What it can do is to stop extra cooperation.
- Rochus 7y agoOh, a side blow ;-) Don't worry, I also studied law. What The Company can or can't from this contract is not granted unless you have supreme court judgments for the points in question. Otherwise the current patent system, which is primarily based on bluff and blackmail, would not work. As long as there are companies that would rather settle than defend themselves in court, The Company will find a way to stay in the game.
- Nokinside 7y agoFirstly, you are confusing patent system and copyright in your answer. Secondly, nt's not about legality of open source license at all. LGPL or GPL does not burden Qt Company with license obligations since it owns the source code. There is another contract between KDE foundation and QT company that we are talking here.
- Rochus 7y agoI'm sure you'll get it.