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

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den tis 31 mars 2020 kl 20:46 skrev Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
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> Den tis 31 mars 2020 kl 20:40 skrev Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest
> <interest at qt-project.org>:
> >
> > Il 31/03/20 20:34, Elvis Stansvik ha scritto:
> > > Do you see the absurdity? For me as manager at F, to be sure we're not
> > > breaking the contract with Frob, we would have to stipulate our
> > > contract with G not only that they themselves stick with paid-support
> > > Frob tools, but that they in turn must stipulate the same in their
> > > contracts with any H type subcontractors.
> > >
> > > And you think this will encourage people to pick commercial Qt?
> >
> > Without such a clause, you could easily incorporate a wholly owned
> > subsidiary, make it do all the development as "contractors" using Open
> > Source Qt, get the finished product back, slap it under Commercial Qt
> > and enjoy the benefits of the commercial terms without having paid for
> > it during the development. That's what the clause is protecting against.
>
> Sure, I understand what it's protecting against. With all the
> confusion in the thread, I don't think anyone is confused about that.
> I just think it's an absurd protection.-

And, with the risk of running my analogy into the ridiculous, this
would rather be as if F was buying say floor tiles (== Qt) from Frob,
and the jackhammer (== Qt Creator) H was using happened to be made by
Frob as well.

Elvis

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> Elvis
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> >
> > My 2 c,
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