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The Qt Project is about to launch
The "Qt Project," being the new governance structure for Qt, has announced its
existence. "Since the Open Governance Model discussions started
in July 2010, we have worked closely with the community to restructure the
code base, design the governance structure, prepare the tooling, and define
a contribution model for individuals and companies. And, we are excited to
have a system in place that will be rolled out just five weeks from
now."
Some more information can be found in this supplemental posting by chief maintainer Lars Knoll. "I want to make it very clear that the foundation will not steer the project in any way. The foundation is in place only to cover the costs of hosting and run the infrastructure. All technical decisions, as well as decisions about the project direction, will be taken by the community of Contributors, Approvers and Maintainers. For example this means that people in Nokia working on Qt will start working with Qt as an upstream project. Everyone will be using the same infrastructure, including mailing lists and IRC." (Log in to post comments)
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 7:22 UTC (Tue) by bangert (subscriber, #28342) [Link]
does this mean that the KDE Free Qt foundation has served its purpose and is disbanded?
http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundatio...
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 9:01 UTC (Tue) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link]
Quite possible. But since they changed the license to LGPL, there was not much point in this construct anyway, IMHO. (What's the point in releasing LGPL'ed code under BSD license? As I read the agreement, they cannot release the code Nokia would add to Qt after taking it proprietary; but I might have misinterpreted that.)
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 9:16 UTC (Tue) by rdale (guest, #70788) [Link] does this mean that the KDE Free Qt foundation has served its purpose and is disbanded? No, the Free Qt Foundation serves a different purpose and it will continue as before. Nokia still owns Qt and holds the copyright, and the purpose of the Free Qt Foundation is to ensure that if the ownership or license changes, then KDE will be guaranteed to be able to use a Free toolkit. The Qt Project is about contributing to the code base, and not about these 'meta-licensing' issues.
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 14, 2011 1:24 UTC (Wed) by burchr (subscriber, #73059) [Link]
Qt does not have copyright assignment, it has copyright licensing. Nokia owns the copyright on the majority, given that it bought Trolltech (formerly the only copyright holder, sans third party code) and continues to contribute the majority of code contributions - but it doesn't own all copyright anymore.
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 7:49 UTC (Tue) by danieldk (guest, #27876) [Link]
As a user of Qt, I am a bad worried about the 'Qt Quick is the future, traditional widgets are in maintenance mode'-direction that Qt has been heading in. Qt is used a lot (and very effectively) in building traditional desktop applications, while Nokia is primarily interested in fancy iOS-like interfaces using Quick.
I hope that open governance helps to restore the balance a bit. Though, I do realize that changes are made where time is invested.
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 9:09 UTC (Tue) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link]
Well, to me it seems like Nokia won't push the widget based UIs anymore, but if someone else is interested in improving it, they are happy to accept patches. At least that's how I understood this post:
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/12/qt-modules-maturity-l...
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 9:24 UTC (Tue) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
And not only accept patches, but give responsibilities to the area based on meritocracy.
The Qt Project is about to launch Posted Sep 13, 2011 10:01 UTC (Tue) by danieldk (guest, #27876) [Link]
It is good to see that Nokia is moving Qt towards independence!
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