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License terms [0]:

provided that in no event shall Customer create any Derivative Work that is competitive with or offers substantially the same functionality as the Licensed Software or any other product or software application commercially offered by Embarcadero

A hard pass, sorry. Would be nice to play, though.

[0] https://github.com/Embarcadero/DelphiFMX4Python/blob/main/LI...

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Don't they make software in a narrow niche (IDE and dev tools)?

It seems like the license is saying "don't start selling what we're giving away for free".

> Don't they make software in a narrow niche (IDE and dev tools)?

And DBMS and some kind of deployment solution thing.

I have a meeting planned to discuss improving the license terms.

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