message posted by Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer to the kde-community mailing
list detailing the current state of discussions between the KDE community,
the Qt development project, and the Qt Company. It seems they are not
going entirely well. "But last week, the
company suddenly informed both the KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QT
Foundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts more
pressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they are
thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the
first 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end of
contributions via Open Governance in practice."
There is a response
from the Qt Company that doesn't add a whole lot.