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> In fact, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Just like my answer to the other comment, there are a ton of "perfectly reasonable" things that one can do, that are still shitty behaviour.

That's like when someone leaves free books for anyone to take, you'd take one but never put another one for other people. You're not breaking any laws or rules. Still shitty. Especially if you have enough money to build a whole freaking library.

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I do agree with you, but in the specific case of free book sharing - I hear that most of the time, the problems is too many books rather than too few, so you should really not worry about taking a book even if you are not sure you're going to put another one for other people.

But Qt chose to release under the LGPL. If they had wanted to restrict unpaid use of Qt to Free and Open Source software, they could have done so with the GPL licence.

the point is not to restrict - it's to give back when you have more than enough capital to do so.

Like, anyone can go to a food bank charity to have a free meal. If you have a 5-digit monthly salary, that is still a very shitty thing to do, even if you and everyone else plays by the rules.

Sure, I see your point, especially as Tesla:

1. Could easily afford it, as you say

2. Presumably aren't releasing their software as Free and Open Source

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