| 1 Nov 2025 |
|  Gaétan Lepage changed their profile picture. | 22:54:09 |
| 2 Nov 2025 |
 K900 | Probably going to catch it anyway | 07:44:42 |
| K900 | But Qt 5 update incoming for -next | 07:44:48 |
 emily | 5? | 07:45:50 |
| K900 | Yes | 07:48:52 |
| K900 | 5 | 07:48:53 |
| emily | did they start maintaining WebEngine again | 07:54:20 |
| K900 | Uhh | 08:03:32 |
| K900 | /me looks around | 08:03:37 |
| K900 | Nope | 08:03:54 |
|  connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8) changed their display name from connor (burnt/out) (UTC-7) to connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8). | 08:13:03 |
 aloisw | Probably just related to the 1 year delay of non-webengine stuff? | 09:38:59 |
| K900 | Correct | 09:43:14 |
| emily | what delay is that? | 09:48:22 |
| emily | they're maintaining it for paying customers and releasing the versions a year later or something? | 09:48:33 |
| aloisw | Yeah, pretty much that. They are allowed to delay the open source release by at most 1 year after commercial, and fully exploit that time frame for LTS releases. | 09:49:08 |
| emily | is that because of their agreement with KDE or something? | 09:53:01 |
| emily | (as in "allowed") | 09:53:07 |
| aloisw | I don't remember the details, but basically I think the contract allows KDE to fork Qt under a permissive license if they fail to release any Qt version as open source with at most 1 year delay. | 09:54:50 |
| emily | right | 09:56:21 |
| emily | I just wasn't sure what was binding them there | 09:56:28 |
| emily | https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/ I knew about this but didn't recall the exact details of the contract. | 09:56:47 |
| emily | haha, Qt are contractually prohibited from dropping X11 support | 09:57:12 |
| emily | I guess they're going to have to amend that at some point?? | 09:57:20 |
| aloisw |
The Foundation has the right to update to supported successor platforms (e.g. from X11 to Wayland) without additional negotiations with Qt Group.
| 09:57:37 |
| emily | whoops | 09:57:49 |
| emily | I didn't get enough sleep | 09:57:52 |
| aloisw | (from that overview page, one would have to read the contract to figure out whether that means they are not allowed to drop either X11 or Wayland in this case or if it only affects Wayland) | 09:59:14 |
| K900 | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/457760 | 10:10:50 |
 leona | fyi We thought a bit about the release schedule and adapted it to reality, it will probably be something like that. I propose that we'll see how the staging-next cycle that starts in the next 2 days looks like and then decide if a second one still fits | 17:28:29 |
