[Interest] Learning solutions survey

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Thu Jun 17 09:02:01 CEST 2021


Am June 17, 2021 6:48:07 AM UTC schrieb Tino Pyssysalo <tino.pyssysalo at qt.io>:
>The EDU license is targeted at instructor-led classroom teaching rather
>than scientific research work. 
>In the latter case, open-source license is working better or even
>commercial one, if the work 
>will result to a commercial product. 
>--
>Tino
>
>
>> On 16.6.2021, 23.33, "Interest on behalf of Bernhard Lindner"
><interest-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of
>private at bernhard-lindner.de> wrote:
>>
>>     Never heard about that license. I was very interested until I
>read the FAQ:
>>
>>     "Under the educational license, limitations apply. Applications
>and/or devices may not be
>>     distributed to third parties and must be used for internal use
>only. Subcontracting in any
>>     direction is not allowed under this license. Professional support
>of Qt is not included
>>     either."
>>
>>     This means that as soon as the students use the software in the
>practical part of their
>>    studies and have to publish the software as part of their
>scientific work or as part of
>>     their degree, they are forced to go back to the OSS license.
>That's ridiculous. For me,
>>     that means avoiding Qt altogether in our curriculum or, if at
>all, relying exclusively on
>>     the OSS license.
>>     It seems like there is an internal company rule that requires all
>license terms to be
>>     written in such a way that licensees are annoyed under all
>circumstances. 
>
>
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No need to go with commercial license when doing commercial product...
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