Is it time to fork qtwaylandscanner?

[Vlad Zahorodnii]

Hi,

As you probably know, the Qt company announced [1] that 5.15.3 is going 
to be a commercial-only release. It won't be exaggeration to say that 
this is really sad news.

Unfortunately, KWin/Wayland is going to be affected by this unexpected 
freeze of Qt 5.15 for open-source because there is a very important 
bugfix in qtwaylandscanner 5.15.3 to prevent (rare, but still possible) 
compositor crashes.

We have the following options:

(a) Ask all distributions that ship KDE Plasma to patch qtwayland [2]

(b) Fork qtwaylandscanner. It's a relatively small project, so it won't 
cause any huge maintenance hurdles

What are your thoughts on this matter?

Cheers,
Vlad

[1] 
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-January/040798.html
[2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/319811