[Development] Updating the licence policy for Qt Project

[Jake Petroules]

On 2014-08-22, at 03:21 AM, Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The goal here is that adopters of those new Qt modules will have to abide
> by the terms of the LGPLv3, which require the ability to replace the Qt
> that is on the device on the actual device, thus creating an open
> ecosystem for application developers, or instead purchasing a different
> licence from Digia, which results in investments in Qt.

Can you clarify how this would affect, for example, a closed source Qt-based application on iOS 8.0 using LGPLv3 and dynamic linking (or static linking + providing object files)? Does the FairPlay DRM used by Apple constitute a breach of the requirement to be able to replace the copy of Qt that is on the actual device? Or is this more about the hardware itself being read-only (i.e. baked-in firmware on embedded devices)?

> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
> 
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