Il giorno lun 27 gen 2020 alle ore 22:01 Alexander Akulich < [email protected]> ha scritto:
> > You already made life harder by licensing Qt under GPL v3. Of course, > it has pros and cons, but let's jump to the consequence: we have > Sailfish OS out of the boat. The OS could have a modern Qt and we > actually could have people working on the upstream QtDeclarative, Qt > Quick Controls 2 and other modules in the paid time, but. The OS > developers have complex agreements with a number of important business > partners and for some of them, it is unacceptable to follow some of > the tivoization-related GPL v3 clauses. It is hard to explain to > managers the profit from a new version or collaboration with the Qt > community. (From a business PoV) it makes very little sense to pay for > some abstract "technical prettiness" as long as Qt 5.6 gives you the > money. > Jolla should just buy a proprietary license since the user facing bits are proprietary as well. -- https://liri.io
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