Hi, If it may interest anybody, using Yocto is defacto embedded license required. So using Qt into your Yocto for a product make you enter into the royalty fee realm and an expensive one.
Another client that will use something else. It took the client 30 seconds to choose after the sale representative meeting. I cannot even think they gave such a price for over 50k unit per years… It make 3 ridiculous pricing for embedded I get from Qt into the past years and a half for different clients. None when down that road, not because of the tech, but the embedded royalty are just plain out of this world for embedded devices. Maybe for a 20k$ car it can make sense, but when you make SPA equipment, hospital bed, power control box, it’s plain a no go for GUI. And we are not talking low volume client, 15k, 40k and the other was 75k-100k. Better, invest that money on bigger MCU/GPU, when the royalty is above the MCU price it’s plain insanity. Sad, but I have not been able to use Qt in the past few years… [signature_2639730570]<https://www.dimonoff.com/> Jérôme Godbout, B.Eng. Software / Firmware Team Lead [Smart Phone avec un remplissage uni] (581) 777-0050 [Envelope avec un remplissage uni] jgodb...@dimonoff.com<mailto:jgodb...@dimonoff.com> [World avec un remplissage uni] www.dimonoff.com<http://www.dimonoff.com> From: Interest <interest-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> Date: Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 4:00 PM To: interest@qt-project.org <interest@qt-project.org> Subject: Re: [Interest] Yocto is application or device creation license??? On Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:13:37 -03 Jérôme Godbout via Interest wrote: > Can I use the Yocto Layers and Recipes in a build using BitBake (YP's build > tool) to make a commercial application using the Application Development > license? > > That’s my true question, is application development license allowed into > that context or are we force to use the device creation license. I think you or I are getting mixed on details. Yocto Project, recipes, layers, and BitBake are just tools to accomplish the build of your device. YP licences won't apply at the end. Only the cumulative licence of all the software that you selected (by way of the layers) does and the YP tools will create the BOM for you to analyse. This is where this licence you're referring to comes into play. So it doesn't matter how you built and deployed your Qt Commercial onto the device, only that you did. Does that licence allow you to ship your device? Does it require payment of per-unit royalties? Does it put extra requirements on what you can or can't do? I can't answer that, since I don't know the terms. You should get your legal department to make a decision. Qt Company's opinion is an input, not a conclusion. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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