QT is putting up a Paywall
by Mobile1 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52308)
This story impacts KDE:
They announced that LTS releases of Qt will only be available for paid license holders. It is still unclear what this implies for contributions to Qt and for the sharing of security fixes between the various parties (including The Qt Company, the many Qt experts contributing, the KDE community, and Linux distributions).
https://www.osnews.com/story/131646/...cularly-happy/
Luckily for the future of KDE and Qt, there is an agreement in place between KDE and The Qt Company that states that "["] should The Qt Company discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under the required licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses."
They announced that LTS releases of Qt will only be available for paid license holders. It is still unclear what this implies for contributions to Qt and for the sharing of security fixes between the various parties (including The Qt Company, the many Qt experts contributing, the KDE community, and Linux distributions).
https://www.osnews.com/story/131646/...cularly-happy/
Luckily for the future of KDE and Qt, there is an agreement in place between KDE and The Qt Company that states that "["] should The Qt Company discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under the required licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses."