Android Enshittification process -> Let's promote Sailfish OS

No; this is still not correct. I thought we had this discussion a couple of times already.

Basically no parts of Qt changed LGPL->GPL. They changed LGPL2->LGPL3 and GPL2->GPL3.
I.e. almost all still have the same link-ability; basically only tivolization clauses have changed. I really cannot stress this enough.
This is much more likely to be about that locking a bootloader on preinstalled phones may run afoul of “being able to swap out the software”.

Yes, the compositor was rug-pulled; but how much actually links to it? Lipstick has always been open.

Jolla have gone out of their way to not include any other components that are GPL3 in the base image (and include plenty that are GPL2 - not least of which the kernel). If this wasn’t the problem, why would they bother?

Until this guesswork is backed by something resembling a motivation, i will continue calling it out wherever it appears.

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