Pavel, thanks.
I understand the wider issue, and generally don't like these bait and switch tactics which one encounters once in a while. greetings, el On 2020-04-20 14:00 , Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 08:33:27AM +0200, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> Again, and considerations of not breaking the Open Source ideology >> aside, can this issue be solved by funding a license? > > The problem is not really lyx-specific. Our main goal is to produce > source code. So at the end it is the users ditribution who needs to > ship certain version of Qt. Possible year-lag is not a huge problem. > > What is concerning here is rather whole Qt-KDE community interaction. > Nontrivial percentage of Qt contributions comes from OSS comunity > around. Now, being such developer, are you going to accept that you > need to pay for your own work if you need the fix soon? The worst > possible outcome could be forking Qt by the OSS community and that's > where the "interesting" times would start :) It wouldn't help the > long-term future of the codebase neither for Qt-company nor for the > OSS community, but it might happen if QtC decide that mid-term revenue > is most important thing now. > > For LyX itself there is not much to worry about, we'll likely just > follow the big players like KDE or distributions choice :) > > Pavel > -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
