Qtopia questions

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Lorn,

> Qtopia development is fairly closed. We do take contributions,  
> depending
> on our roadmap, but consider that we need to sell it however we like
> (non GPL), we ask for copyright assignment, or a very liberal license
> like BSD. This is mainly for large features. Small bug fixes cannot be
> copyrighted (IMNAL) so we can take these from anyone.

We have a copyright assignment in place, but if you ask Holger he will  
tell you that he has dozens of real Qtopia-only (not related to our X  
port) bug fixes that nobody at Trolltech (Australia) cares to look at  
or accept.
It would be fantastic if this could improve, we would all benefit.

Wolfgang

On Jul 26, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Lorn Potter wrote:

> Al Iasid wrote:
>> Hi, I'm using Qtopia on my new Freerunner and enjoying the software
>> and the hardware. Please excuse the noob questions below. They're
>> sincere and aren't meant to incite debate. My apologies if these have
>> been answered already.
>>
>> 1. Are there plans to maintain ongoing development/support of regular
>> (non-X) Qtopia for the Freerunner? Or, will developers shift focus to
>> work on the Qtopia-on-X (ASU?) distributions?
>
> Qtopia is developed by Trolltech/Nokia. WE are using it as our current
> Qtopia SDK platform.
>
>
>> 2. Will fixes move back and forth between regular Qtopia and Qtopia- 
>> on
>> -X (ASU) in the future?
>
> Yes, depending what the 'fix' actually does.
>
>> 3. Can I realistically use Python to develop apps for Qtopia? (I see
>> "Python...Yes" on the Distributions page, but I don't find much when
>> using Google.) What I'm trying to ask is: Is Python used frequently
>> and easily?
>> 4. Is the model for Qtopia open-source, but managed by
>> Trolltech-Nokia? That is, do outside developers submit changes to
>> standard Qtopia?
>
> Qtopia development is fairly closed. We do take contributions,  
> depending
> on our roadmap, but consider that we need to sell it however we like
> (non GPL), we ask for copyright assignment, or a very liberal license
> like BSD. This is mainly for large features. Small bug fixes cannot be
> copyrighted (IMNAL) so we can take these from anyone.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Lorn 'ljp' Potter
> Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company
>
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