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Comment by tim-- | Hacker News Reader

Funnily enough, this came up in a similar comment earlier today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319868

It's important to note that Qt is only talking about the commercial LTS release, and not the open source version of Qt.

All development of new code released in open source Qt is still released in the development branch, the open source community 'misses' the back ports into the stable (LTS) branch.

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From the linked email:

  > As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months.
  > They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice.

I'd venture to say this means: open-source repo will be kept public.

Will we be able to match a Qt release with the corresponding source?

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