[Interest] Mixing Commercial and Open Source license for, different projects

[Roland Hughes]

The short answer would be no.

You have to use an OpenSource version for customer B and a commercial 
version for A.

This is one of the reasons I keep 5-6 machines in my office. I load one 
up for use with a specific client. When a client wants me to use 
commercial they have to acquire the license and send a machine. I do 
that so the license is never installed on anything I own. They do that 
because they usually have a VPN and some other software they want 
pre-loaded.

This is all part of the licensing FUD that has been happening for years now.

Adding insult to injury, if you have been following the discussions per 
the death of OpenSource LTS (pretty much the death of OpenSource Qt) and 
the add-on arguments about other OpenSource projects which are fully 
OpenSource yet will not be kept current in OpenSource Qt 5.x now that 6 
has come out and the other brew-ha-ha over fixes not being provided to 
OpenSource as part of the death of OpenSource LTS, you wouldn't even 
want to _try_ using your commercial version to write code for an 
OpenSource project. There will be lots of stuff fix or new in it that 
simply doesn't exist in the OpenSource version and will not for many 
many months, if ever at all.

You have touched on one of the many reasons so many companies are opting 
to abandon Qt. I just talked with two more this week who had been firmly 
entrenched with Qt for years. Both are rather large names in their 
industries. Both re-wrote everything under Electron.

https://www.electronjs.org/

The licensing FUD and the death of OpenSource LTS were the reasons they 
left.

On 3/15/21 6:00 AM, James Maxwell wrote:
> For A I need a commercial license. Am I then still allowed to use QtCreator
> under my commercial license to develop a LGPL project for customer B?

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