[Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly

[Scott Bloom]

From the Qt blog post https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020

"These changes will not have any effect on existing commercial licensing or services agreements."

Now, it doesn’t talk about the notion that if you built and produced your code against a commercial license, it has to remain in force for you to be considered licensed.

As you say Roland, I have no idea how that could be possible for an existing contract, but going forward its not an uncommon licensing strategy.

Scott
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Subject: Re: [Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly


On 3/26/21 1:39 PM, Jason H wrote:
> Thiago, apparently, even with a commercial license, we no longer have 
> rights to use whatever versions were current when we had the license. 
> Previously, we could use it in perpetuity. This is probably a deal 
> breaker at my new organization. It is my understanding that after our 
> software development is done, we have to maintain commercial licenses 
> even when we are not_developing_  software in Qt. I think the previous perpetuity licensing was appropriate.

**Seriously**

They are trying to end a 5.x perpetuity license that was already bought and paid for? Nah. Can't be. I know a customer that paid north of $600K for such a license and the device isn't yet out the door. They happen to have a lot of lawyers too. I can't believe they would take that lying down.

What I "thought" was said was you could no longer obtain such a license. 
I don't agree with that, but that policy doesn't place QtC in legal jepordy because the license change only impacts new product.

I'm not a lawyer, but if you bought a license, they (QtC) can't just arbitrarily end said license. Companies will be suing for return of license fees and for damages.

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