> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 9:41 PM > From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macie...@intel.com> > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was willy-nilly > > On Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:38:56 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > > > Qt's horizon is about 7 years. > > > > That's 8 years too short. > > For this industry, sure. But it's not Qt's promise. The fact that some > industries require a higher standard of support or coding practices or > stability does not immediately mean that it must be done in all software. > > It doesn't make economical sense for Qt to provide support for 15 years. If > you need Qt for that long, you should engage a consultancy that will sell you > that contract, the same way that Red Hat sells support for RHEL 6 for 14 years > total (2010-2024).
Thiago, apparently, even with a commercial license, we no longer have rights to use whatever versions were current when we had the license. Previously, we could use it in perpetuity. This is probably a deal breaker at my new organization. It is my understanding that after our software development is done, we have to maintain commercial licenses even when we are not _developing_ software in Qt. I think the previous perpetuity licensing was appropriate. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest