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I really like Qt for desktop development, use it everyday, but this post makes me feel uneasy.

What "discussions on various internet forums" do they mean? there's been plenty. And, which ones "do not reflect the views or plans of The Qt Company"?

Why such a rushed defensive blog post?

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It's direct response to https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...

In particular

> Unfortunately, The Qt Company is currently considering to stop this healthy cooperation

Qt Company can't wiggle out from the contract it has with KDE. It must release Qt as open source withing 12 months. Qt stays open source.

The negotiations and uncertainty are related to all extra cooperation above that.

12 months is fairly close to an eternity in software, though; that's a pretty big catch

Yeah. I can't imagine KDE using Qt if there's a 12 month turnaround (and they don't have final word of what goes into a release). I would think they'd have to fork and hopefully merge on release.

"discussions on various internet forums" here probably means the KDE forums/mailing list. From the mailing list "During the past two years, there have been negotiations between The Qt Company and the KDE Free Qt Foundation for updating the contract.". More info: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...

There are talks in the mailing list about forking QT but KDE doesn't seems to want that currently due to lack of developers for maintaining a fork