[Development] New company name for Qt part of Digia and unified web site

BogDan bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 18 13:31:20 CEST 2014



----- Original Message -----
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>

On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote:
> Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the 
> source code. So yes, the current qt.io site is very misleading there. 

> They just don't have the right to publish closed source software based 
> on those modified sources without releasing those modifications to their 
> users (well, sort off. It is of course a bit more involved than that.)

That last sentence is true, but unrelated to making modifications. Every user 
of Qt under the LGPL must publish the version of Qt they used, REGARDLESS of 
whether they modified it or not. They have to publish it on their own servers.

[..] 
Your sentence is correct as long as the user *ships* qt libs alongside his apps!
If the application uses system libraries, then IMHO, is not his responsibility to provide the sources for Qt.


Cheers,
BogDan.




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