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This marks the of the end of a cooperative relationship and the beginning of a confrontational relationship. Imagine getting a phone call like, "Can we send ou

This marks the of the end of a cooperative relationship and the beginning of a confrontational relationship. Imagine getting a phone call like, "Can we send our license specialist to your premises and conduct an audit of your code?". Leveraging Qt code just went from an asset to a liability.

nabla9 7y ago
Without more argumentation, this sounds like hysterics so common in the social media. Always jumping to extreme conclusions.
badsectoracula 7y ago
FWIW if you bothered to check their website's language after Nokia (i think), Qt already had a confrontational relationship. It is just that they were slowly building it up over time. And really, ever since the Trolltech days, Qt was dragged into open source kicking and screaming.
- Morxo 7y ago
  In the Trolltech days, Open Source Qt was GPL-only. And up until Qt 4, the Windows port was Commercial-only. Nokia introduced LGPL and open governance, simply because they were not interested in Qt as a commercial product, and The Qt Company is now trying to build a business around this. With huge companies like Tesla building their product around the free version of Qt without complying with the open source licenses, it is not that hard to see why they would look for ways to find out who their actual users are.
joezydeco 7y ago
Imagine getting a phone call like, "Can we send our license specialist to your premises and conduct an audit of your code? I really wouldn't expect that from an organization from Qt, however I /would/ expect a call like: "Hey, congratulations on your launch! We noticed someone from your org downloaded source from us about 18 months ago. Mind if we discuss your licensing plans?"
cycloptic 7y ago
>Leveraging Qt code just went from an asset to a liability. So your company was previously violating the license and hoping nothing would happen? I certainly hope you don't randomly download code off the net just to do that.

nabla9 7y ago

Without more argumentation, this sounds like hysterics so common in the social media. Always jumping to extreme conclusions.

badsectoracula 7y ago

FWIW if you bothered to check their website's language after Nokia (i think), Qt already had a confrontational relationship. It is just that they were slowly building it up over time. And really, ever since the Trolltech days, Qt was dragged into open source kicking and screaming.

Morxo 7y ago
In the Trolltech days, Open Source Qt was GPL-only. And up until Qt 4, the Windows port was Commercial-only. Nokia introduced LGPL and open governance, simply because they were not interested in Qt as a commercial product, and The Qt Company is now trying to build a business around this. With huge companies like Tesla building their product around the free version of Qt without complying with the open source licenses, it is not that hard to see why they would look for ways to find out who their actual users are.

joezydeco 7y ago

Imagine getting a phone call like, "Can we send our license specialist to your premises and conduct an audit of your code? I really wouldn't expect that from an organization from Qt, however I /would/ expect a call like: "Hey, congratulations on your launch! We noticed someone from your org downloaded source from us about 18 months ago. Mind if we discuss your licensing plans?"

cycloptic 7y ago

>Leveraging Qt code just went from an asset to a liability. So your company was previously violating the license and hoping nothing would happen? I certainly hope you don't randomly download code off the net just to do that.