On 31/03/2020 14.16, Francis Herne wrote: > Having looked through said document, the relevant sections seem to be: > >> 1. ... “Prohibited Combination” shall mean any means to (i) use, combine, > incorporate, link or integrate Licensed Software with any software created > with or incorporating Open Source Qt, (ii) use Licensed Software for creation > of any software created with or incorporating Open Source Qt, or (iii) > incorporate or integrate Applications into a hardware device or product other > than a Device. ... > > Can't use licensed Qt Creator to develop open-source Qt apps; ok.
That *is* what the above appears to say. It's also *beyond* asinine. YTH should TQtC care if I buy their IDE and use it to develop OSS software? This just strikes me as a reason to *not* buy their IDE. I fail to see how it is in any way beneficial to TQtC. The *intent* here is to not use the licensed Qt *libraries* to build a product which also leverages the OSS version of Qt in any way, to avoid people "shirking" by writing most of their code against OSS Qt and then later bolting on a tiny proprietary bit. I won't comment whether I think that approach makes sense, but it's at least comprehensible. > In general, the only "clear" policy is that The Qt Company deliberately > obfuscates the conditions under which the GPL version can be used, to put > people off exercising the rights that do exist. > > This goes along with the general downplaying of, and FUD about, the GPL > option > on the website, and the bizarre retrospective licensing. > > It's disrespectful to the outside contributors who've built so much of Qt and > its ecosystem in exchange for those rights, and doesn't bode well for the > future of Qt in the free software community. No argument here... -- Matthew _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest