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

[Tuukka Turunen]

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