KDE Licensing Policy Updates

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 20 September 2016 at 22:54, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org>
wrote:

>     Certainly not. AGPL is like GPL in that sense, with the extra rule
>>     that you must publish the source code even if you're only giving
>>     access over the network and not distributing binaries.
>>
>>     I don't think an AGPL library makes much sense though.
>>
>>
>> ​ALGPL makes sense then :)
>> ​
>>
>
> On the other hand: Is Qt still used much for web services? And if so: Are
> our frameworks of much use for those?
>
>
There are Qt related projects that facilitate adding web service
compatibility to a traditional code (example I tried recently:
qhttpengine). QML is network transparent, and web services with QML has
been advertised by some contributors. There were commercial endeavors such
as Enginio. Many more examples I just forgot about.

I don't see these things advertised that as much (and infantile) as all the
"awesome" web things that so often live for one year and die, or
transforming themselves without looking back or caring for compatibility
and are encouraging copy-paste type of usages.

When asking about local vs web computing there seems to be apparent
polarization, you switch tools every time you move from one world to
another. That does not need to be a rule.



> I think this might be more of an edge case. I suppose that if we're doing
> web stuff, it's more likely to be full applications rather than libraries.
>

Well I'd like to see such usage increasing. Not to create unholy mix but to
truly continue the x0 years old concept of client-server computing, just
differently named artifacts.

I think certain already good apps and libs from FOSS would be even better
and more popular if they have support use cases that require web services
and if placing some of the logic on the server would be an officially
supported feature. Certainly also my modest usage would increase too (two
Qt projects at the moment) so the ALGPL term isn't a nonsense for me.

Programming for a local workstation is simpler, maybe that's why many C++
developers start there and and also stay in where the sweet spot is. For
example the last time when a contributor offered help in adding to support
for Oracle server in my KDE project... it was in 2004.

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