Slow return to pre-Nokia business model? [LWN.net]

Slow return to pre-Nokia business model?

Posted Jan 13, 2016 21:29 UTC (Wed) by droundy (guest, #4559)
In reply to: Slow return to pre-Nokia business model? by halla
Parent article: Qt open source licensing changed

I presume the licensing revenue they would gain would be from makers of proprietary software who were able to link with a LGPLv2 library, but are unwilling to link with an LGPLv3 library. Which sounds great to me.

Slow return to pre-Nokia business model?

Posted Jan 14, 2016 6:24 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Yes... Not that you said that, I realize this change might even affect my current customer. They're making a thingy that uses Qt for its embedded gui, and they don't have a commercial license. And it's pretty locked down. But they probably would have had to get one anyway, since they need the QtQuick 2 software renderer (which, btw, performs beautifully on this hardware, the performance is indistinguishable from the QtQuick 1 graphicsview renderer).

Slow return to pre-Nokia business model?

Posted Jan 21, 2016 7:56 UTC (Thu) by gwg (guest, #20811) [Link]

Such closed source manufacturers now have an incentive to fork Qt.