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

[Roland Hughes]

Thanks Scott!

Yeah, I was thinking about this as I woke up this morning. Trying to 
retroactively invalidate all existing perpetual licenses would be 
illegal. Not just "pay a fine" illegal, go to prison illegal.

On 3/26/2021 7:30 PM, Scott Bloom wrote:
>  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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>
> 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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