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Does anyone know how this is compliant with the QT Company's agreement with the KDE Free Qt Foundation? I was under the impression the Qt company was legally o
by jwitthuhn 6y ago
Does anyone know how this is compliant with the QT Company's agreement with the KDE Free Qt Foundation?
I was under the impression the Qt company was legally obligated to release all updates under the LGPL, and failure to do so would result in the latest release of Qt being relicensed to BSD.
Specifically, section 3.2 in this agreement. https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreement_2015.pdf https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...
I understand they have 12 months from now until that clause kicks in, but based on their announcements it looks like the Qt company has no intention of ever releasing these 5.13 updates as open-source.
- detaro 6y agoThey probably don't want to advertise that, because it might persuade people to wait instead of pay. Hopefully they'll release the patches quietly after a year instead of trying to lawyer out of it (which I'd expect to be unlikely, but who knows)
- dathinab 6y agoFixes having a delay of multiple month is enough for many companies relaying on Qt to pay for LTS ;=)