Same here.. Used to be commercial with a previous company. Couldn’t justify the rates for commercial licenses... And could never justify the "back license" fee
Scott -----Original Message----- From: Interest <interest-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of David M. Cotter Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 1:42 PM To: John Weeks <j...@wavemetrics.com> Cc: Interest <interest@qt-project.org> Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt free software policy i’m in a similar boat. i’m sure there are others who are NOT on this list who are also in the same boat. > On Aug 14, 2019, at 1:22 PM, John Weeks <j...@wavemetrics.com> wrote: > > We are a small company selling a very large and complex application which is > now based on Qt open source. At the time we first considered porting to Qt > (version 4.3?) the license was very expensive for small company (six > programmers) and the evaluation period simply wasn't adequate to deciding if > it was the right way to go. So we went open-source when it became available > when Nokia took over. > > Since then, we have wished that we had a commercial license in order to get a > bit more traction on some bugs. The Qt Company wanted us to pay for all the > licensing that had accrued since we started using the LGPL version. That > up-front cost is prohibitive, so we haven't done it. > > Perhaps, if you are trying to nudge folks toward commercial licensing, you > could provide a path that isn't so expensive. Or maybe you have? We haven't > bothered to look into it lately. > > -John > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
