Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

[konold]

Hi Jens,

> The Qt Company says that they are willing to reconsider the approach only if
> we offer them concessions in other areas. I am reminded, however, of the
> situation half a year ago. We had discussed an approach for contract
> updates, which they suddenly threw away by restricting LTS releases of Qt
> instead.
>

This is nonsense. What concessions are we to give them that would bump their
revenue short term if that is their core problem right now?

They explicitly ask for relicensing components from LGPL to GPL. Basically anything which increases short term revenue in the fiscal year 2020 by growing the sales of subscriptions (no perpetual license anymore!) the commercial Edition to existing Free Edition users. 

The changes during the last months with mandatory registrations showed them the potential.  (Basically counting .com addresses...)

It seems as if
they are simply hounding for concessions and nothing else.

The fact that they want to burn the field and still think they can harvest come
spring is to me ridicilulous and seems to be done by someone who has no
understanding of the process of work involved in their own project on the
technical or social level.

I think we shouldn't give them any concessions.

I am always willing to negotiate concessions on good faith but quid pro quo applies!

Cheers 

--martin