You mean if they don't comply with the GPL3.0 portion of their licensing [1]. It's pretty disingenuous to say that complying with the GPL is more expensive and

You mean if they don't comply with the GPL3.0 portion of their licensing [1]. It's pretty disingenuous to say that complying with the GPL is more expensive and restrictive. Purchasing a comparable closed source software suite, or developing it in house, might be less feature complete and more expensive. It's "restrictive" in the sense you need to comply with the GPL which probably gives much more freedom than most closed source licensing terms [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Licensing [2] http://www.binpress.com/page/licensing http://www.binpress.com/page/licensing