??????<br><br><b><br></b><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen@qt.io><br>To: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>; interest <interest@qt-project.org><br>Sent: Tue, Mar 31, 2020 01:03 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt Commercial developers<br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none">Hi Thiago,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As I wrote a bit earlier, for completely independent projects/products it is <br clear="none">fine that one is using commercial and one open-source. This is much more <br clear="none">likely to happen in a big corporation than a small company, but possible <br clear="none">scenario in both.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Note that these really should not be same or in practice the same - or in <br clear="none">any way depending, relating, using etc each other as defined in the license <br clear="none">agreement.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">See licensing FAQ question 2.7 at <a shape="rect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.qt.io/faq/">https://www.qt.io/faq/ </a>and License <br clear="none">agreement at <a shape="rect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/">https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yours,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">        Tuukka<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 31.3.2020, 14.33, "Interest on behalf of Thiago Macieira" <br clear="none"><<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:interest-bounces@qt-project.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:interest-bounces@qt-project.org">interest-bounces@qt-project.org</a> on behalf of <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thiago.macieira@intel.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:thiago.macieira@intel.com">thiago.macieira@intel.com</a>> <br clear="none">wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">    On Monday, 30 March 2020 16:59:11 -03 Elvis Stansvik wrote:<br clear="none">    > > Please read the commercial license agreement and the licensing FAQ. <br clear="none">The<br clear="none">    > > restriction has nothing to do with open-source licensing. It is <br clear="none">about a<br clear="none">    > > company, who is using a commercially licensed Qt not to use parts of <br clear="none">the<br clear="none">    > > same licensed Qt product under open-source license. If there was no <br clear="none">such<br clear="none">    > > restriction, a company could have a team of 10 developers, but only <br clear="none">1 or<br clear="none">    > > 2 commercial license for Qt.<br clear="none">    > Up until now, you've said "same project". Now you are switching to<br clear="none">    > "company". Please clarify.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">    And don't think of a 10-developer company. Think of a company with 20000<br clear="none">    developers, with offices all over the world. If *any* of them buy a <br clear="none">commercial<br clear="none">    licence, does it mean everyone else must stop using the open source Qt? <br clear="none">And Qt<br clear="none">    Creator?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">    How about contributing to Qt open source? Do they have to stop too?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">    -- <br clear="none">    Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com<br clear="none">      Software Architect - Intel System Software Products<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">    _______________________________________________<br clear="none">    Interest mailing list<br clear="none">    <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Interest@qt-project.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:Interest@qt-project.org">Interest@qt-project.org</a><br clear="none">    <a shape="rect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest">https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest</a><div class="yqt2112883456" id="yqtfd72907"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Interest mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Interest@qt-project.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:Interest@qt-project.org">Interest@qt-project.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest">https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest</a><br clear="none"></div></div>