On 13 Mar 2006 10:19:05 -0800, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What people don't usually understand (or rather complain about loudly) > > is that Trolltech can refuse to license Qt to you under the commercial > > licence, as is their right as the owner of the copyrighted work. > > What is the deal here? Why would they refuse, to someone willing to > pay the commercial license fee? They are a business, and as such, > they presumably like gettng money. And someone wanting to develop a > proprietary app with Qt that users have to pay for, shouldn't mind > paying Trolltech for the commercial Qt license. > --
Qt (commercial) licensing is a subscription - you pay per developer per year - so an obvious thing for people to attempt (and I have no idea if this has been tried, but I wouldn't doubt it) is for a company to download the GPL version, develop the application internally, and then purchase 1 license when they're ready to ship. This would seriously bite into TTs income and they aren't interested in allowing you do this, so while you're free to download the GPL version and develop all you want, TT won't sell you a commercial license "after the fact" like this. > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
