[Interest] Qt Creator licensing for companies with Qt Commercial developers
Tuukka Turunen
tuukka.turunen at qt.io
Tue Mar 31 14:02:02 CEST 2020
Hi Thiago,
As I wrote a bit earlier, for completely independent projects/products it is fine that one is using commercial and one open-source. This is much more likely to happen in a big corporation than a small company, but possible scenario in both.
Note that these really should not be same or in practice the same - or in any way depending, relating, using etc each other as defined in the license agreement.
See licensing FAQ question 2.7 at https://www.qt.io/faq/ and License agreement at https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/
Yours,
Tuukka
On 31.3.2020, 14.33, "Interest on behalf of Thiago Macieira" <interest-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
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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