Trolltech, Qt 4.2 and KDE 4.0

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:41, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> On Sunday 12 March 2006 17:19, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > >What I don't want is bug reports on Qt. We have a team of support
> > >engineers dedicated to assessing all bug reports sent to
> > >qt-bugs at trolltech.com. All bug reports should go through the normal
> > >channels. I'd like to be informed only of critical issues for *KDE*, for
> > >which there is no simple workaround.
> >
> > I also forgot to add:
> >
> > please don't add patches to qt-copy before talking to me or another
> > Trolltech developer first. For various legal reasons, we cannot accept
> > large patches from our users. So, while discussing the code and API is
> > healthy and we hope to do that, we will probably have to write the code
> > ourselves.
>
> Perhaps this is an area/policy that Trolltech needs to reconsider then. Why
> isn't it possible to adopt the standard practice of a copyright waiver for
> submissions like other companies do?
>
> It does feel/seem bizarre that we have a GPL project that uses a library
> under the terms of the GPL, but it is a tortuous process to submit
> fixes/changes, requests disappear into the black hole that is the trolltech
> bug tracker, and code submissions are positively discouraged.
>
> Perhaps with you on board that part of the process is going to be
> transformed now though.

From what I understand from what I have read about copyrights, this is a major 
feature/issue of Western European copyright laws. One cannot give one's code, 
unlike for example what FSF asks for its code.

So it is not surprising that Trolltech is reluctant to get large patches. 
(That is also why I have never send a single patch to Qt Bugs.) 

>
> Regards,

Have a nice day!