[Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt Commercial developers

[Andy]

"Is it still possible for the developers who don't use Qt libraries in any
way, use Qt Creator IDE for editing and debugging?"

I don't understand how you get: "The question was related to mixing
open-source and commercial version of Qt in the same project." out of that
question.

I also don't understand why the Qt Company continues to confuse things and
alienate Open Source developers.

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 9:48 AM Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> The question was related to mixing open-source and commercial version of
> Qt in the same project. See Qt licensing FAQ: https://www.qt.io/faq/
>
>
>
> It states in question 2.7.: ”Q: Can some developers in our team working
> on the same project use open-source version of Qt and some developers use
> Commercial version of Qt?
>
> A. No. Each developer must have their own assigned Qt license. Mixing Qt
> commercial licenses with Qt open-source licenses in one project/product is
> not permitted.”
>
>
>
> Qt Creator under GPL license can be used for developing closed software.
> The restriction about mixing commercial and open-source Qt affects the case
> originally asked.
>
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
>
>                 Tuukka
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Jakub Narolewski <izowiuz at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday 27. March 2020 at 15.27
> *To: *Jérôme Godbout <godboutj at amotus.ca>, Tuukka Turunen <
> tuukka.turunen at qt.io>, Vyacheslav Lanovets <sol at lanovets.ru>, "
> interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> *Subject: *RE: Re: [Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt
> Commercial developers
>
>
>
> Maybe I misunderstood something so just correct me.
>
> If I use – commercially – QtCreator as my daily IDE without using Qt
> library or attached modules, I still need to pay for full Qt license?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jakub Narolewski
>
>
>
> *From: *Jérôme Godbout <godboutj at amotus.ca>
> *Sent: *27 March 2020 14:22
> *To: *Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io>; Vyacheslav Lanovets
> <sol at lanovets.ru>; interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject: *Re: [Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt
> Commercial developers
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> is it just me or this is heading into the wrong way, or at least into the
> opposite direction of the market. Most IDE are now free, even the embedded
> world start giving IDE away:
>
> xCode is free
>
> vs code is free
>
> Atollic is free
>
> STM32 TrueStudio is free
>
> ..
>
>
>
> People are leaving pricy IDE behind, Keil anyone? less and less used.
> Starting to pay for an IDE like QtCreator, seem like you will only get less
> users toward Qt or people might be temped more and more to use VisualStudio
> as an IDE of choice.
>
>
>
> This is my personnal point of view on the subject,
>
> My 2 cents,
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Tuukka
> Turunen
>
> Sent: March 27, 2020 8:56 AM
>
> To: Vyacheslav Lanovets <sol at lanovets.ru>; interest at qt-project.org
>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt
> Commercial developers
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Correct. All users need to have commercial license. It is not allowed for
> part of the team to use commercial and part use open-source. Even though Qt
> Creator is great, it can feel odd to pay for full Qt license and only use
> the Creator IDE.
>
>
>
> We have been thinking about selling Qt Creator separately, but so far no
> decisions made on this.
>
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
>
>                 Tuukka
>
>
>
> On 25.3.2020, 21.09, "Interest on behalf of Vyacheslav Lanovets" <
> interest-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of sol at lanovets.ru> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>
>
>     Situation.
>
>
>
>     A company has a few developers with Qt Commercial subscription who
>
>     write applications in Qt for iOS.
>
>     There are many other developers, who work on other projects and don't
>
>     use Qt libraries.
>
>     They talk to each other and sometimes even work on the same code.
>
>
>
>     Is it still possible for the developers who don't use Qt libraries in
>
>     any way, use Qt Creator IDE for editing and debugging?
>
>     To be on the safe side, company plans to prohibit usage of Qt Creator
>
>     IDE for all employees.
>
>     I reckon this is a popular solution.
>
>     If I understand correctly, Qt even sells a special option to ban all
>
>     company IP addresses for open-source installer.
>
>
>
>     But is it really so?
>
>
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Vyacheslav
>
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