switching from free licence to commercial licence without re-installing everything?
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With Qt and qtcreator: is it possible to start using commercial development licences without reinstalling everything on every computer?
We need to switch Qt to commercial development (paying) licences on our professional computers, when so far, I was working on Open Source projects with my own personal (free) licence.
Shall I need to reinstall EVERYTHING on every computer that will be used for these commercial developments?
Or is there a simple way to switch to another Qt account without re-installing everything?
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Simply copying the license file to the correct directory (don't know which though) should be enough. The Qt source and binaries are the same.
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@JL-SABATIER said in switching from free licence to commercial licence without re-installing everything?:
With Qt and qtcreator: is it possible to start using commercial development licences without reinstalling everything on every computer?
We need to switch Qt to commercial development (paying) licences on our professional computers, when so far, I was working on Open Source projects with my own personal (free) licence.
Shall I need to reinstall EVERYTHING on every computer that will be used for these commercial developments?
Or is there a simple way to switch to another Qt account without re-installing everything?
Those quesstions should be asked the commercial help line. You are entitled to this, because you are paying.
AFAIK at least in past there was a requirement that you cannot simply switch from open source to commercial license within your projects. The formulation read a bit like you have to start all over again. That was when the company still was called Trolltech
[edited koahnig]
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@koahnig said in switching from free licence to commercial licence without re-installing everything?:
AFAIK at least in past there was a requirement that you cannot simply switch from open source to commercial license with your projects. The formulation read a bit like you have to start all over again.
I thought that was about switching in the middle of a project?
It should be fine if you finish all existing open-source projects on a PC, switch licenses, and then start a new commercial project.
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Yes, probably I should have been more careful in formulating. Corrected above "with" to "within".
Personally I found the requirement a bit odd. As long as you did not have anything published nobofy would have known anyhow.
I guess the requirement is gone since we have an LGPL.
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Thank you very much for your insights. So, I'll finish my open source projects and will dedicate this laptop for developing the commercial applications, starting after switching to a commercial licence. This should follow the rules as far as I understand. Thanks again!
