Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Eike Hein
It's important to differentiate things we know and things we don't know, especially in situations that invite speculation. What we do know: - There's a contract. It's a vital document that has served everyone well for a long time. - Parties to a contract can change in all sorts of ways over

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Jens
I can’t make any calls since the work isn’t on my shoulders but if the Qt company are ready to pull this stunt AND then lie about it in the vaguest most awkward way of saying “KDE and Qt Free are lying” they will do this again and forking, even though Qt Company cowered out now, might be better

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Eike Hein
> Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is very true. The KFQF with all representatives remains actively working on the issues with the same mission state- ment, too. Cheers, Eike - KDE e.V. Vice President

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 9 april 2020 15:29:22 CEST Noah Davis wrote: > I've seen a lot of people on Reddit and various chat rooms who are a > fan of Kt as a name. I'd advise against this discussion at this point, it doesn't belong here, it's a topic that can quickly explode, lead to bike-shedding and

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Noah Davis
I've seen a lot of people on Reddit and various chat rooms who are a fan of Kt as a name. - It fits well in a square, which makes it great for logos. - It's unusual, but not weird looking. - It looks kind of like an element on a periodic table. - In Google and DuckDuckGo searches for "kt", most

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 9 april 2020 14:12:36 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote: > On Apr 9, 2020 11:34, "Jens" wrote: > > > Hosting of the website also wouldn't be an issue (and if it ends up > > > being high traffic, as long as the content is cacheable we can rely on > > > Cloudflare). People would need to step

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread dimkard
On 09.04.2020 10:57, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On donderdag 9 april 2020 10:19:00 CEST Paul Brown wrote: To further this list, a friend in the VFX industry pointed out that all these non-KDE projects use the Free version of Qt (thanks Mike): * Appleseed: https://appleseedhq.net/ ---

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Clemens Toennies
On Apr 9, 2020 11:34, "Jens" wrote: > > > Hosting of the website also wouldn't be an issue (and if it ends up > > being high traffic, as long as the content is cacheable we can rely on > > Cloudflare). People would need to step up to write the content and > > produce any necessary graphics though

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Florian Bruhin
Hi, (Apologies for not answering to the original mail in this thread, I only subscribed after it was sent and can't find a Message-ID in the web archives.) As the maintainer of a web browser[1] using QtWebEngine, I find this deeply concerning. A year delay in security updates would be

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On donderdag 9 april 2020 11:31:52 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > Gerrit on the other hand is a completely different matter - it doesn't > even know how to send email properly... I guess a community fork of Qt can work just as well with gitlab :-) > CI for Qt sounds like Pandora's box though, and a

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Klaas Freitag
Am 08.04.20 um 20:03 schrieb Nate Graham: > On 4/8/20 9:32 AM, Christoph Cullmann wrote: >> On 2020-04-08 15:39, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >>> On woensdag 8 april 2020 13:13:41 CEST Jens wrote: > It's heartening that KDAB has already indicated willingness to support > such a thing should it become

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Jens
> Hosting of the website also wouldn't be an issue (and if it ends up > being high traffic, as long as the content is cacheable we can rely on > Cloudflare). People would need to step up to write the content and > produce any necessary graphics though :) > Graphics? ... you have my bow / I

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:02 PM Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On woensdag 8 april 2020 23:20:34 CEST Jens wrote: > > > > > Is there any vague calculations concerning the work that would be needed > > being > > done? > > > > * There needs to be a mailing list or two > * There needs to be a system

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On woensdag 8 april 2020 23:20:34 CEST Jens wrote: > > Is there any vague calculations concerning the work that would be needed > being > done? > * There needs to be a mailing list or two * There needs to be a system like gerrit or gitlab to host development * There needs to be CI -- the Qt

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On donderdag 9 april 2020 10:19:00 CEST Paul Brown wrote: > To further this list, a friend in the VFX industry pointed out that all > these > non-KDE projects use the Free version of Qt (thanks Mike): > > * Appleseed: https://appleseedhq.net/ --- https://github.com/appleseedhq/ > appleseed

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Paul Brown
On miércoles, 8 de abril de 2020 23:20:34 (CEST) Jens wrote: > On onsdag 8 april 2020 kl. 20:11:47 CEST Paul Brown wrote: > > On miércoles, 8 de abril de 2020 20:03:37 (CEST) Nate Graham wrote: > > > On 4/8/20 9:32 AM, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-08 15:39, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: >