[Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt Commercial developers
Jean-Michaël Celerier
jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 17:11:16 CET 2020
It is also the license of the binaries that you can download there :
https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qtcreator/4.11/4.11.1/
And it states quite succintly :
"This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the
unmodified Program."
> but if you just use qtcreator, just use it. its free.
well, that is not what
"
Anyways, I'll now explain again the answer to the original question asked.
The question was, as I understood it, "Is it allowed that people working in
a project use commercially licensed Qt and some other persons in the same
project who do not develop Qt use open-source licensed Qt tools?"
Answer to this is: No, it is not allowed to mix commercial "Licensed
Software" and the open-source versions provided by The Qt Company in the
same project."
seems to mean, which is why I'm wondering.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 4:56 PM alexander golks <alex at golks.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:45:55 +0100
> schrieb Jean-Michaël Celerier <jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com>:
>
> > > Answer to this is: No, it is not allowed to mix commercial "Licensed
> > Software" and the open-source versions provided by The Qt Company in the
> > same project.
> >
> > What about open-source versions provided by another distributor, e.g.
> > someone doing apt install qtcreator ?
> >
> > Also how is that compatible with this part of the Qt Creator license ?
> >
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT#n493
> >
>
> afaiu,
> this is the license for the "source code" of qtcreator, isn't it?
> this has nothing to do with using qtcreator in it's binary released
> version.
> if you want to use qtcreator code itself, you're bound to this license.
> but if you just use qtcreator, just use it. its free.
>
> you can use qtcreator to develop whatever you want.
> if it happen to be a qt app, it has nothing to do with the license of the
> used qt library,
> nor has it anything to do with licenses of other libraries you use.
>
> qtcreator is just a tool you use.
> you're free to use executables build from free open source software
> whereever you want.
>
> --
> /*
> *printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Thanks, I feel much better now!\n", dev->name);
> * linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/de620.c
> */
>
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