Offtopic: Qt licensing changes

[Eberhard W Lisse]

I personally don’t care what is under the hood, because I don’t understand any of it, I am an elderly Gynecologist dabbling a little in Perl and (even less in) LaTeX.

But as a long time Open Source user (privately and in my practice) I share the annoyance about this reversal of policy by the Qters.

But if there was a way to negotiate some form of Qt LTS support for LyX, I am sure it could be crowded.


el

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On 12 Apr 2020, 12:12 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>, wrote:
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>
> Le 12 avril 2020 00:35:02 GMT+02:00, Dr Eberhard Lisse <nospam at lisse.NA> a écrit :
> > In the sense, of "how much would the crowdfunding be?"
>
> As a free software project, I am not sure this is a path we want to take. Since we do not distribute only binaries, it is our users who would need a license.
>
> But only time will tell whether stability becomes a problem. We are not tied to a particular version in general.
>
> JMarc
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> >
> > el
> >
> > On 2020-04-10 18:08 , Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> > > What license would the development team need?
> > >
> > > el
> > >
> > > On 2020-01-28 17:33 , Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > > Just FYI ( https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 ):
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > Long-term-supported (LTS) releases will become available to
> > commercial licensees only
> > > > ...
> > > > Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be
> > available to
> > > > commercial customers. This means open-source users will receive
> > patch-level
> > > > releases of 5.15 until the next minor release will become available.
> > .. We are
> > > > making this change to encourage open-source users to quickly adopt
> > new
> > > > versions. This helps maximize the feedback we can get form the
> > community and to
> > > > emphasize the commercial support available to those with longer
> > product life
> > > > cycles that rely on a specific Qt version.
> > > >
> > >
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