Trolltech, Qt 4.2 and KDE 4.0

[David Faure]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:11, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> >On Sunday 12 March 2006 18:19, 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.
> >
> >Also, if the patch developer wants to give the copyright to trolltech?
> 
> Depending on the conditions, that's a possibility, but we'd rather it were 
> the exception, not the rule. The legal department would not be 
> thrilled...

I'm surprised, because it worked nicely for me. A year ago (when I wrote the
support for vertical tabbars in Qt4) I sent (by snail mail iirc) a signed document
(provided by TT lawyers) and all went well. OK if by "not thrilled" you mean
"by the additional amount of work", that might be. But the actual solution seems
to exist, for the case where people want to contribute large patches.

(Before that, when I sent many patches for the qt3 richtext engine, I only
had to send a mail about accepting my code to be dual-licensed, but
unfortunately this isn't enough anymore ;)

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).