Op 2006-03-13, Paul Boddie schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul Rubin 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, > > Well, I can't answer for them in any sense (and I should ask you to > substitute any company with a similar business model for Trolltech in > the text, along with accompanying product names, in order to emphasize > the mere speculative nature of my explanation), but all I was trying to > do was to explain the pattern of behaviour that goes something like > this: > > 1. Developer downloads Qt GPL edition. > 2. Developer develops product based on Qt. > 3. Some time later, with finished product, developer now wants > to release a closed source version of the product. > 4. Developer approaches Trolltech and asks for a commercial > licence in order to ship a closed source product. > > 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?
I wonder what this "per developer" means. Suppose ten people are working on a product. But only one person is working on the GUI and comes into contact with the Qt widget. Is that one or ten developers that are counted for the license? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list