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

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Mar 31 13:18:20 CEST 2020


On Monday, 30 March 2020 16:59:11 -03 Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> > Please read the commercial license agreement and the licensing FAQ. The
> > restriction has nothing to do with open-source licensing. It is about a
> > company, who is using a commercially licensed Qt not to use parts of the
> > same licensed Qt product under open-source license. If there was no such
> > restriction, a company could have a team of 10 developers, but only 1 or
> > 2 commercial license for Qt.
> Up until now, you've said "same project". Now you are switching to
> "company". Please clarify.

And don't think of a 10-developer company. Think of a company with 20000 
developers, with offices all over the world. If *any* of them buy a commercial 
licence, does it mean everyone else must stop using the open source Qt? And Qt 
Creator?

How about contributing to Qt open source? Do they have to stop too?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products





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