[Interest] Help with maintenance tool

[Tino Pyssysalo]

On 22.9.2020, 16.19, "Interest on behalf of Jason H" <interest-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:

    > Thanks, I'll give that a shot.
    >
    > I think the bigger problem is that if you're used an email for evaluation there is no way to select the Open Source version, it just forces you into a commercial or no license scenario. There seeds to be a license 
    > selection screen with lawyer appoved verbiage tot he effect of "I chose o use Qt in accordance with the various OpenSource Licenses including GPL2-3, LGL 2-3. In addiytion the following modules are not available 
    > under any open source license:
    > 1 ??
    > 2. ???
    >...
    > "
    >
    >  I can't e the only person who has previously evaluated before this whole sign-up process was made mandatory?

This is fully intentional. We have business requirements, which have resulted to sub-optimal user experience. 

Commercial license agreement denies mixing open-source Qt with commercial Qt. In installation, this is handled in such a trivial way
that Maintenance Tool does not allow changing the login credentials from the ones, which were used in the installation - were 
they used for evaluation, open-source or commercial usage. 

The simple work-around is to re-run Online Installer login page. The installer can be closed after the login with open-source credentials 
and no actual re-installation is required. 

NOTE however that after this the commercial installation has been converted to an open-source installation and all open-source
obligations apply. The better way would be to have two separate open-source and commercial installations in the first place. 
The only use case where this conversion makes sense, if you want to continue with open-source Qt after evaluation. 
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Tino Pyssysalo
Installer product owner
The Qt Company