FYI, the delay of source availability of future Qt releases is not clear.
Last public discussion about the subject, to my knowledge: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
Last public discussion about the subject, to my knowledge: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
> they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice.
This is the minimum they can do, and they can't do legally anything less. If they don't release free edition within 12 months...
https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
> 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. The agreements stay valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.
KDE releasing Qt under BSD is IMHO credible threat.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319868
It's important to note that Qt is only talking about the commercial LTS release, and not the open source version of Qt.
All development of new code released in open source Qt is still released in the development branch, the open source community 'misses' the back ports into the stable (LTS) branch.
> As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months.
> They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice.
Will we be able to match a Qt release with the corresponding source?