@JonB said in linuxdeployqt and licensing:
@tekojo
Yep, I do understand all the stuff you say. And both you & @jsulm have confirmed/clarified my understanding, for which many thanks.
Back in the old bad days, you would actually send a dvd or usb stick if someone asked.
To satisfy this, I had thought of offering to send enquirers a printout of the Qt source code :) (You'll see there are posts on the web stating that this is acceptable, or could be construed as such.) However with the link suggestion now that will not be necessary, to the relief of my local tree population.
On behalf of your local trees, thank you.
I do understand that The Qt Company would like some support/money for Qt. (I often wonder which of you guys post here with your Qt Company hats on versus under your private user hat collection.)
For the technical questions, when our developers show up here, they have their Qt hats on. I mean they develop Qt, so it's something that they just know. But most of the time the people who answer here on the forums are community members, so they deserve a lot of thanks.
(on the other hand, if you asked about mountain climbing, dogs, japanese swords or something other a bit more exotic, our developers would get their free time hats on)
Just for the record, so that you know when you see my posts, I am not a company, and I am not working for a company. I am (for my sins) doing voluntary work to help someone with a Qt project. Neither I nor the stakeholder receive any financial recompense for our work. So $500 p.m. to use Qt would never have been a viable proposition for us! But maybe, in addition to my questions, my posted answers in this forum trying to help others counts as some kind of "support" for the project :)
Sorry, didn't mean to sound too tight back there. I didn't think you were a company or doing commercial work, it just needs to be stated so that when people later on run into this thread, they get the full picture.
I think you are doing a good job here on the forums. Good questions and answers and a very good attitude :) It's exactly the kind of thing we value from community.
Everyone here is (or should be) very grateful to you & the other experts for the kind & excellent support posts you make here. Thank you!
I don't really think of myself as an expert (I work in a place where every single developer is at least 10 times better than me in coding...), but I try to help where I can.
