Qt availability changes

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

The Qt Company recently announced upcoming changes in the distribution of their official binaries:

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/thread.html#38316

Two of the changes adversely affect how we develop and build Wireshark, primarily on Windows and macOS. First, 
downloading official releases from qt.io will require logging in with a Qt account. How much of an issue is this for 
people developing Wireshark on those platforms? Is it enough to warrant switching to a different, unofficial source for 
Qt binaries? I'm not really thrilled about the prospect of Qt salespeople pestering someone who just wants to build a 
Wireshark dissector.

Second, LTS releases will no longer be open source starting with Qt 5.15. We currently ship the latest LTS version of 
Qt with our Windows and macOS packages. I'm not sure how we're going to handle this in the future.
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