The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company

Here's amessage posted by Olaf Schmidt-Wischhifer to the kde-community mailinglist detailing the current state of discussions between the KDE community,the Qt development project, and the Qt Company. It seems they are notgoing entirely well. "But last week, thecompany suddenly informed both the KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QTFoundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts morepressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they arethinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for thefirst 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end ofcontributions via Open Governance in practice."

There is a responsefrom the Qt Company that doesn't add a whole lot.