On 2020-09-28 19:48, g4sra via Dng wrote: > On 28/09/2020 02:29, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:35:55AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: >>> On 27/9/20 13:59, g4sra via Dng wrote: >>>> I have reservations about where QT5 is going, despite any issue with >>>> pulseaudio, now might be a good time to jump ship. >> >> I've been wondering about QT5, but haven't been able to pinpint what makes >> me >> uneasy. Care to elaborate? > > History! > > Remember StarOffice -> OpenOffice leading to the fork and creation of > LibreOffice because the other two were taken over and pulled in-house ? > > MySQL -> MariaDB another example. > > With respect to KDE\LXQT > QT are slowly pulling the source in-house with each release, they keep > changing the licensing of it's various aspects. > They are also starting to require and charge a fee for licenses. > Currently I believe you can submit patches to QT *provided* you register for > a QT account first, how long before you need to pay a fee..... > > If I cannot freely submit and have patches applied the official source, then > in my book that source is not FOSS even if the source is published for me to > look at. > I have no qualms about using TDE as the development team have already sort of > forked QT -> TQt by maintaining an earlier uninhibited version themselves.
Didn't I read somewhere that KDE has forked QT? _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
