On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 11:50, Aigars Mahinovs <aigar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You are mixing up completely unrelated things. Commercial entities and > software coming from it have nothing to do with commercial activity. > > The commercial activity is what *you* are doing with the software. It is > completely irrelevant where you got it from or if you wrote it. > > If you are doing commercial activity and are getting QT as a commercial > product from a commercial entity, then it is *easier* for > you - you can simply delegate the security responsibilities of that part of > your software stack up to the QT commercial entity > and you just need to take care of the rest of the stack, which you are > *selling* to your customers (commercial activity!). > > Whether accepting donations *in general* makes your activity in providing > software a "commercial activity" in the context of > this directive proposal is not really a supported notion in the text. There > are a few specific examples of what does make > a "commercial activity" in point 10, but none of those examples directly > apply to general donations to a project or person.
I am not mixing, I think the current wording does not _exactly_ says so, leaving a door open for abuse.
