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

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 31/03/20 15:35, Tuukka Turunen ha scritto:
> The point of the "Prohibited combination" is to prevent a company or a chain of companies (like in a typical subcontracting scenario) from making part of the product with non-paid Qt and part with paid. Qt being as defined in the commercial license agreement, i.e. including tools and framework. This was what the person initiating this mail thread asked about. I do agree that it gets complex when one starts including items created by an independent third party. This is at the moment not listed as an allowed case, even though it is not something we specifically aimed to prevent.

I understand the underlying reasoning 100%, but clarity is important 
here, and the ones I brought forward aren't some "far fetched" 
hypothetical scenarios.

In a product developed with Qt commercial, anyone is going to using a 
bunch of non-Qt libraries, for instance coming with any basic Linux 
installation (e.g. glibc, libstdc++, ICU, whatever). Maybe some ad-hoc 
ones, e.g. Boost. How can one be sure that none of those has been 
developed using GPL Qt Creator? Should one just "live with" the 
possibility of infringing the commercial license, because TQC is just 
not interested at chasing this case down?


Thakns,
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