[QGIS-Developer] Position on Qt wrt The QT Company announcements

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Paolo,

We didn't have any contact with the QT Company, but with KDAB in 
Germany, which is a different company that does QT development, as far 
as I know.

Andreas

Am 09.04.20 um 19:27 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> Il 09/04/20 18:25, Vincent Picavet (ml) ha scritto:
>
>> Olaf Schmidt-Wishhöfer from KDE project has made a statement yesterday about a
>> really concerning situation regarding the OpenSource state of Qt.
>>
>> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html
>>
>> TL;DR : using the argument of COVID-19 crisis, The Qt Company wants to restrict
>> a lot the opensource version of Qt, with a 12 months publishing delay even for
>> security patches.
>>
>> Relations between The Qt Company and the OpenSource community degraded vastly
>> over the last month, and what was a balanced governance and economical situation
>> tends towards a stuck situation, with all OpenSource Qt users at risk of being
>> deeply affected.
>>
>> The KDE Free Qt foundation is currently the organization defending free and
>> opensource access to Qt.
>>
>> https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
>>
>> Given that QGIS is probably one of the most distributed Qt-based software
>> solution in the world, I think that we should take position in this situation.
>>
>> My Opinion is that QGIS.org should clearly express a full support to the KDE
>> Free Qt Foundation, and send them an official public message.
>>
>> I also think that if the situation evolves to a point where a Qt Fork becomes
>> the only viable solution to continue to have a free and opensource Qt project
>> with a balanced and open governance, then QGIS.org should also contribute to
>> financing the KDE Free Qt foundation yearly, so that they are able to hire
>> maintainers for the library.
>>
>> I think that these points are decisions to be made by the PSC, and that there is
>> a certain urgency to do it.
> thanks a lot for the detailed report. As you descripe it the situation
> is surely concerning us. Please those who had already contacts with Qt
> and who follows the situation closely give their opinion.
> Cheers.