Pricing development software for a global is inherently very hard, because as you point out the context varies so widely. We've priced Qt according to the value we believe it provides, but recognize our pricing won't work for everyone.
FYI, if you are a small business or a startup, our Small Business Program will provides licenses at a comfortable discount (http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/pricing /licensing/smallbusiness).
I beg to differ. We see the situation as one of win-win. The dual licensing model does generates income for Trolltech through commercial the sale of commercial licenses. It also enables our customers commercial level support and a commercially maintained product. It also enables us to release a top notch product to the Open Source community. We are quite proud of that.
We make Free Software. We don't offer free lunch.
There is nothing weird about the Trolltech Open Source license. The Open Source edition of Qt uses the standard GPL.
For further questions, please see our FAQ.
No, we are not trolling. The point of the dual license model is that we are _dual licensing_ Qt.
We offer the Commercial license for proprietary use, and the Open Source Edition for Open Source use.
You are of course free to download and redistribute the Open Source Edition, but you need to comply with the provisions of the GPL (distribute source with the binary, accept the freedom of your users to redistribute and modify the source). This is not the same as use under any setting at all.
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Pricing development software for a global is inherently very hard, because as you point out the context varies so widely. We've priced Qt according to the value we believe it provides, but recognize our pricing won't work for everyone. FYI, if you are a small business or a startup, our Small Business Program will provides licenses at a comfortable discount (http://trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/pricing /licensing/smallbusiness).
I beg to differ. We see the situation as one of win-win. The dual licensing model does generates income for Trolltech through commercial the sale of commercial licenses. It also enables our customers commercial level support and a commercially maintained product. It also enables us to release a top notch product to the Open Source community. We are quite proud of that. We make Free Software. We don't offer free lunch.
No. We were aware of the project but it did not play a major role in the decision process leading up to the decision to dual license Qt 4.
There is nothing weird about the Trolltech Open Source license. The Open Source edition of Qt uses the standard GPL. For further questions, please see our FAQ.
Note the word "proprietary".
No, we are not trolling. The point of the dual license model is that we are _dual licensing_ Qt. We offer the Commercial license for proprietary use, and the Open Source Edition for Open Source use. You are of course free to download and redistribute the Open Source Edition, but you need to comply with the provisions of the GPL (distribute source with the binary, accept the freedom of your users to redistribute and modify the source). This is not the same as use under any setting at all.
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