Licensing

As of January 2024 the project adopted a standard, commercial model. The product was initially forged through Patreon and a Shareware license, but since it proved difficult to source enough resources through crowdfunding, we simply had to switch to a more traditional business model. The Patreon model was thus abandoned, an investor was brought on as a partner, and a traditional stock based company was formed.

Price models

We at Quartex AS have several successful applications behind us that have done well in the marketplace. However, since modern debugging and disassembly tools have reached a level where they rival the development tools themselves, piracy has sadly become an inevitable fact.

Instead of operating with anti-piracy modules, assembly obfuscation or resource injection (which tends to make life more difficult for paying customers, not pirates) we have chosen a different route: to operate with a low price and instead aim for greater sales volume.

Meaning, that it’s better to offer our products at a price that everyone can afford (including students, startups and hobby developers) than to invite piracy and license violations. It might take us a little longer to earn back our investment, but money is not the only motivation behind Quartex Pascal.

Software development should be fun! It should be something that teenagers and adults alike are excited about. When we learned programming in the 80s and 90s there was a wide range of development suites and languages available. Tools that, if we saved our allowance for a few weeks, we could buy and own.

Today’s development systems are often massive, costly and more often than not bewildering to junior developers. We want to bring back some of the excitement and oppertunities that we enjoyed, so that the next generation can fall in love with Software Development like we did.

Community edition

Object Pascal is a wonderful language, one that deserves to be easily available to students and educational institutions without excessive fees.

  • Free to use for open-source projects (non-profit)
  • Free to use for educational institutions (non-profit)
  • Free to use for students (non-profit)

Please note that training material and certification for Quartex Pascal is not automatically included in “free-use” unless explicitly stated.

Responsibilities

While Quartex Pascal is easily available, there are some rules and responsibilities that must be agreed on when applying for a community edition.

If a developer currently using the community edition of Quartex Pascal creates a product that he or she gets paid for, the developer must obtain a commercial license.

We have no problem with people using the community edition to learn the language, but the moment the developer enters the commercial side of things, we expect the responsibilities to be honored.