There is a growing schism between the Qt Company and the opensource
community.

The Qt Company published a blog post
(https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020) reading:

> From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will require
> valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary packages. We changed this because we
> think that a Qt account lets you make the best use of our services and
> contribute to Qt as an open-source user. We want open-source users to help
> improve Qt in one form or another, be that through bug reports, forums, code
> reviews, or similar. These are currently only accessible from a Qt account,
> which is why having one will become mandatory.

To which the Qt Foundation answered with:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html

This was in April, since then I don't know.


Ludovic

On 28/09/20 03:29, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:35:55AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
>> On 27/9/20 13:59, g4sra via Dng wrote:
>>> I have reservations about where QT5 is going, despite any issue with pulseaudio, now might be a good time to jump ship.
>
> I've been wondering about QT5, but haven't been able to pinpint what makes me
> uneasy. Care to elaborate?
>
> -- hendrik
>
>>
>> +1