Qt集团推出许可协议更新

Qt Group Launches Updates of License Agreements

Qt集团推出许可协议更新

February 01, 2024 by Santtu Ahonen | Comments

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As part of a simplification of Qt Group license agreements — and to improve the overall readability — we have updated the structure of our commercial contracting documentation. This change has a limited impact on the terms and conditions under which Qt Group licenses commercial products and services.

作为Qt集团许可协议简化的一部分，为了提高整体可读性，我们更新了商业合同文件的结构。这一变化对Qt集团许可商业产品和服务的条款和条件影响有限。

The update does not affect any open source licensing or existing and ongoing agreements with Qt Group customers. In other words, if you keep your current products and are only interested in purchasing more of the same, you have no need for any changes.

更新不影响与Qt集团客户的任何开源许可或现有和正在进行的协议。换言之，如果保留了目前的产品，只想购买更多相同的产品，就不需要做任何改变。

The previous Qt License Agreement, version 4.4.1, originates in the Qt Developer Framework’s dual licensing model. The version 4.4.1 was created to add new Qt Group products in the Quality Assurance area, such as Squish, Coco, and Test Center, to the license agreement. Through that change, the License Agreement became more comprehensive but bulkier. With the growth of Qt Group expanding to include the new products of Axivion Suite, it became clear that we needed a new approach to the License Agreement.

之前的《Qt许可协议》4.4.1版本源于Qt开发者框架的双重许可模式。4.4.1版本的创建是为了在许可协议中添加质量保证领域的Qt Group新产品，如Squish、Coco和Test Center。通过这一变化，许可协议变得更加全面但更加庞大。随着Qt集团的发展，包括Axivion Suite的新产品，我们显然需要一种新的许可协议方法。

Rather than changing the core of existing licensing structures for Qt products, we have constructed our agreement in a new, modular, and scalable way.

我们没有改变Qt产品现有许可结构的核心，而是以一种新的、模块化的、可扩展的方式构建了我们的协议。

Modular Structure for Terms and Conditions

条款和条件的模块化结构

The new agreement is modular in structure and called the Qt Frame Agreement. The main body of the agreement is not product or service-specific but rather establishes the relationship between the legal entities (Qt and its customer) and sets forth the general terms and conditions for doing business. As with past Qt License Agreements, the new Frame Agreement is intended for business-to-business relationships.

新协议的结构是模块化的，被称为Qt框架协议。协议的主体不是特定的产品或服务，而是建立了法律实体（Qt及其客户）之间的关系，并规定了开展业务的一般条款和条件。与过去的Qt许可协议一样，新的框架协议旨在建立企业对企业的关系。

To complement the main body of the Frame Agreement, products and services now have their own specific appendices to the Frame Agreement. This format allows product-specific structures (for example, covering developer framework-specific conditions like dual licensing) to be set forth in that product’s appendix to the Frame Agreement. In other words, our intent is forthe Frame Agreement to be more focused and easier to use in a multi-product world. The Frame Agreement also allows modular changes and additions as products or services evolve.

为了补充框架协议的主体，产品和服务现在在框架协议中有自己的特定附录。这种格式允许在框架协议的产品附录中规定特定于产品的结构（例如，涵盖开发者框架的特定条件，如双重许可）。换言之，我们的意图是让《框架协议》在多产品世界中更加专注，更容易使用。框架协议还允许随着产品或服务的发展进行模块化更改和添加。

Ultimately, our goal is to make it faster and more convenient for our customers to review and approve the agreement. Instead of reviewing a contract covering various products and services outside of the current focus, customers have the terms and conditions specific to the product they are looking to purchase or use.

最终，我们的目标是让我们的客户更快、更方便地审查和批准协议。客户没有审查涵盖当前重点之外的各种产品和服务的合同，而是拥有他们想要购买或使用的产品的特定条款和条件。

Some Change Highlights

一些变化亮点

Qt Developer Framework: Clarified policies for using different types of license editions as well as transfer of licenses between employees in a customer company.

Qt开发人员框架：阐明了使用不同类型许可证版本以及在客户公司员工之间转让许可证的政策。

Squish, Coco, Test Center, Axivion, Insight: Terminology alignment and fit to the Frame Agreement structure.

Squish，Coco，Test Center，Axivion，Insight：术语对齐并适合框架协议结构。

Professional Services: Until now, Professional Services from the Qt Group have been handled in separate, dedicated agreements. With the new Qt Frame Agreement this is no longer the case. General terms for Professional Services provided by the Qt Group are now included as part of the Frame Agreement as a general Professional Services appendix; related Statements of Work are then completed for Professional Services (whether time and materials, fixed project work, trainings, workshops or other Professional Services).

​专业服务：到目前为止，Qt集团的专业服务都是在单独的专用协议中处理的。随着新的Qt框架协议，情况不再如此。Qt集团提供的专业服务的一般条款现已作为一般专业服务附录纳入框架协议；然后完成专业服务的相关工作说明书（无论是时间和材料、固定项目工作、培训、研讨会还是其他专业服务）。

Support: Qt Technical Support terms and conditions have been restructured to support the multi-product nature of Qt Group’s current offering. The support service levels, response times, and actual support service offering is not changed.

​支持：Qt技术支持条款和条件已进行重组，以支持Qt集团当前产品的多产品性质。支持服务级别、响应时间和实际提供的支持服务不变。

Educational License Agreement: Educational and student use was moved out of Qt LA 4.4.1 Appendix 5 to a separate end user license agreement already in November 2023.

​教育许可协议：教育和学生使用已于2023年11月从Qt LA 4.4.1附录5中移出，成为单独的最终用户许可协议。

You can find the new agreement under qt.io/terms-conditions. The change is effective today, 1st February 2024.

​可以在qt.io/terms-conditions下找到新协议。此更改于2024年2月1日生效。