Lars or anybody else from The QtCompany, I would like to follow up on this topic.
> I think this also gives us a chance to do a proper handover to the > community if we can find some people who are interested in helping with > maintaining the technology. From The Qt Company’s perspective, we’d be > glad to help with this transition effort. Let’s try to find out, what’s > needed to make such a handover a success Right now the Qt Company holds the ownership of the code base and all contributions have to pass the obligatory Qt CLA. The Qt Company has also clearly communicated that they would not support Qbs beyond 2019. That makes it very difficult to convince other parties to invest in it. It would be good if the Qbs project would be transferred to a widely trusted, non-personal, non-profit organization. The Linux foundation for instance might be a candidate we could try. Such an organization as backup would help the Qbs project to - gain trust among (industrial) customers - find sponsors - to get structural, organizational and maybe also technical support Thus, would the Qt Company be willing to: 1. transferring ownership of the code base and the brand Qbs to a non-personal non-profit entity? If yes, in which time frame? 2. re-license Qbs under a permissive open source license? Is Qbs even subjected to the agreement with the KDE Free Qt Foundation? 3. Sponsor the Qbs project, for instance by continue to pay for the domain qbs.io or by allowing Qt engineers to spend (limited) time on keeping Qbs working in QtCreator, doing code reviews to some extend in their work time? 4. provide technical infrastructure like JIRA, gerrit, hosting, at least for a transition period of 2 years even though ownership has been transferred? Thank you for your reply. Best regards Richard Weickelt _______________________________________________ Qbs mailing list Qbs@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qbs