Paul Boddie on comp.lang.python said: > Now, since the commercial licence is "per developer", some cunning > outfit could claim that only one developer wrote their product (rather > than one hundred developers, say), but this would be a fairly big > breach of trust (although nothing unusual in the world of commerce, I'm > sure). Would a business making software for other such businesses care > about such things? What kind of recourse would they have?
Just one thing I don't understand: if you're developing all your software inside your company, how would they know if you already coded it or you still have to? Also, couldn't a big company buy a *single* commercial license from the beginning, build a software employing hundreds of developers using the GPL license, and then distribute the software pretending that the single developer had done everything? This would hit Trolltech anyway. I think the problem has to do with the QT license system. It's their problem, not a developer's one. Also, I suppose one of their commercial licenses provides with far lot more than a license - e.g. I think they'll offer support, design tools, additional docs and libraries. And what would then be their income if they refused to sell you a commercial license because they *know* you've already coded your app using the GPL license of Qt? You could simply throw away your app and never distribute it, and they would'nt see a cent anyway. Personally, I don't like Qt licensing, since I think there're good widget sets around that don't have such limitations, but I don't think that people at Trolltech are really trolls :-= -- Alan Franzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Togli .xyz dalla mia email per contattarmi. Rremove .xyz from my address in order to contact me. - GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C77 9DC3 BD5B 3A28 E7BC 921A 0255 42AA FE06 8F3E -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list