Hi,

On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 14:35, Ilulu <il...@gmx.net> wrote:
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[snip]
> (10a) For example, a fully decentralised development model, where no
> single commercial entity exercises control over what is accepted into
> the project’s code base, should be taken as an indication that the
> product has been developed in a non-commercial setting. On the other
> hand, where free and open source software is developed by a single
> organisation or an asymmetric community, where a single organisation is
> generating revenues from related use in business relationships, this
> should be considered to be a commercial activity. Similarly, where the
> main contributors to free and open-source projects are developers
> employed by commercial entities and when such developers or the employer
> can exercise control as to which modifications are accepted in the code
> base, the project should generally be considered to be of a commercial
> nature.

So basically this means Qt will be considered a commercial product
_even_ if it's totally open source (at least in the way we ship it in
Debian). Even more, it can even be argued that if we ship it _and_ I
get to patch it (we do), then I might be responsible for it, which to
me makes no sense at all.

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