[Development] state of Qt's Australia office

a.grandi at gmail.com a.grandi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 15:02:47 CEST 2012


On 2 August 2012 15:56, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On quinta-feira, 2 de agosto de 2012 15.48.19, a.grandi at gmail.com wrote:
>> 2) RIM must patch upstream any improvement and Qt will benefit from this
>
> I'm not sure if you meant "upstream" in the way that I understand it. So let's
> be clear:
>
> Any user of LGPL must make their modifications available to anyone who received
> the binary code, under the LGPL.
>
> They do not have to make the modifications public in a website on the Internet.
> There are other forms.
>
> They do not have to make them available to someone who did not receive the
> binary forms.
>
> They do not have to upstream them. That is, they don't have to submit them to
> the original project and go through the process of getting it approved.
>
> They should, but they don't *have* to.

thanks for the clarification.

Best regards,

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