Thanks Scott!
Yeah, I was thinking about this as I woke up this morning. Trying to
retroactively invalidate all existing perpetual licenses would be
illegal. Not just "pay a fine" illegal, go to prison illegal.
On 3/26/2021 7:30 PM, Scott Bloom wrote:
From the Qt blog post https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
"These changes will not have any effect on existing commercial licensing or services
agreements."
Now, it doesn’t talk about the notion that if you built and produced your code
against a commercial license, it has to remain in force for you to be
considered licensed.
As you say Roland, I have no idea how that could be possible for an existing
contract, but going forward its not an uncommon licensing strategy.
Scott
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Subject: Re: [Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly
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.
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.
I'm not a lawyer, but if you bought a license, they (QtC) can't just
arbitrarily end said license. Companies will be suing for return of license
fees and for damages.
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