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Use our stuff for free and sell your application? That's Qt. Time to give something back

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In that case, what prevents me from taking all their code, identifying when an LTS version is getting released, and compiling it for those who don't want to do so themselves? I'm assuming that there's some difficulty in the compilation of this library? Then, people can simply download the resulting binaries from me. I might put a donation button to let people express satisfaction that I'm doing this.

If this is allowed, it seems pointless on the part of the QT devs to not do this themselves as all the value in the commercial license would then be the support, which was already the case. Meanwhile, there's always the potential that by doing this they may gain some extra detractors, decreasing the size of the user base that could pay for support. It seems therefore that they shouldn't expect to gain much at all from this move.

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