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

[Jason H]

> 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.


They can't just change your contract/license.

> 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.

This is correct, there is no more perpetuity license. This will likely
be a sticking point for the company I am currently at.