The Qt company has been somewhat hostile to the spirit of open source (see the drama around closing the Qt library for a year since release), so I'm not sure ho

The Qt company has been somewhat hostile to the spirit of open source (see the drama around closing the Qt library for a year since release), so I'm not sure how close it is to the canonical core of the community, and especially to any obligations that might come from that. Either way, there is no mechanism for accountability in open source other than peer pressure or reputation. Qt Company doesn't care about that a lot. They care about making buck first and foremost, operating in the "capitalist" realm. So the solution I propose is using that playbook too. In a broader view, forking is telling people "you are not our devs any more, we're seizing the means of production", which I think is rather anti-capitalist.