Hi, On 09/04/2020 22:39, Even Rouault wrote: [..] > But whatever the outcome of the apparently cool discussions within the board > of > the KDE Free Qt foundation between the KDE e.v and QT Company > representatives, I > don't think a statement of support from QGIS.org to the open source side of > the > QT project would hurt.
+1 to this too > As far as which body to officially support, this is a bit difficult. As the > board of the KDE Free Qt foundation is made of 2 representatives from KDE e.V > and 2 from The QT Company, it seems difficult to imagine that it would > continue > to exist as such, or be still relevant, in the event The QT company would > execute their 12-month-delay plan. And before financially supporting the KDE > Free Qt foundation or whatever other body would represent best the interests > of > a FOSS QT (I guess a new body gathering together KDE, KDAB and all other > parties > would be more relevant in the event a FOSS QT fork would be needed), we should > probably have a look at its current finances/budget (from a quick search, > couldn't find one regarding KDE Free Qt foundation, apart from the 200 000 KRO > founding capital mentionned in their status [1]) Thanks for raising this point, this would indeed be something to look at carefully. I agree in case of a fork, the governance model would be transformed, and I hope the new organization and related awaited transparency would make the financing choice easy to do. But we are not there yet. I also agree with Nyall that technically, impacts on QGIS would not necessarily be big. Having a more open Qt project, with easier contributions and bugfixing could help QGIS though. But generally speaking QGIS, as a big and successful opensource project, now also has the responsibility to voice opinions and defend Opensource / libre software models of organization whenever they are at stake in its ecosystem. It seems like this is a good time to do it. Best regards, Vincent _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
