Dear Lars, What about sources of LTS versions? Could they be still available? Thanks. Kind regards, Robert Iakobashvili ............................
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:35 PM Lars Knoll <lars.kn...@qt.io> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Qt Company has done some adjustments to the Qt will be offered in the > future. Please check out https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 . > > The change consists of three parts. > > One is a change in policy regarding the LTS releases, where the LTS part of a > release is in the future going to be restricted to commercial customers. All > bug fixes will (as agreed on the Qt Contributor Summit) go into dev first. > Backporting bug fixes is something that the Qt Company will take care of for > these LTS branches. We’ve seen over the past that LTS support is something > mainly required by large companies, and should hopefully help us get some > more commercial support for developing Qt further. > > The second change is that a Qt Account will be in the future required for > binary packages. Source code will continue to be available as currently. This > will simplify distribution and integration with the Marketplace. In addition, > we want open source users to contribute to Qt or the Qt ecosystem. Doing so > is only possible with a valid Qt Account (Jira, code review and the forums > all require a Qt Account). > > The third change is that The Qt Company will in the future also offer a lower > priced product for small businesses. That small business product is btw not > limited to mobile like the one Digia had some years ago, but covers all of Qt > for Device Creation. > > None of these changes should affect how Qt is being developed. There won’t be > any changes to Open Governance or the open development model. > > Best regards, > Lars > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
