> > I agree with Jason: Doing the "no LTS for FOSS" at the moment of the > 5.15->6.0 change was really a foul play, imho.
I'm currently attributing it to a license decision that for any other release (say if there was a 5.16) would be fine, but in reality was temporally coupled to the release of 6.0, and what 6.0 composed, which was an unusual and separate decision. And these decisions could have been made separately by different people and not realize the implications of the two combined until it was pointed out. It's a mistake that can be easily rectified. But what happens next is going to show the true character of the Qt Corporation. If the decision was made intentionally, or even so but isn't rectified, then that's going to affect those open source users who don't legally need a license, don't want or need Qt 6, but just need access to patches to keep users happy. I can't really see that as s motivation for a commercial license money grab, because in theory, by 6.2 things will be back to normal. Starving open source license users of patch level changes to get them to convert to commercial for what, a year? Doesn't make sense so me, so I'm not attributing it to malice. What I'd like to see is: - Open Source LTS patches restored until 6.x is at parity. - An agreement that never again will Qt have a Major version release that isn't in parity with the previous feature release (meaning dropped feature have to be dropped Before the major release for at least one version) Ultimately I think this was a learning experience. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development