GNOME has already had such a module (zeitgeist) for quite a while.
I wonder if any developers utilising Qt have ever commented on this?
Doesn't sound too good either.
But this doesn't exactly surprise. Qt have been dancing the tightrope between FOSS and being commercial from their very beginning.

I wonder if SailfishOS have ever made statements about "this sort of problems" with Qt?

Or KDE folks, what do they have to say about either of those news items?