[Development] Adding 3rdpary libraries to QtSerialBus

Alexander Nassian nassian at bitshift-dynamics.de
Thu Aug 11 19:50:35 CEST 2016


Am 11.08.2016 um 19:42 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> 
>> On quinta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2016 19:12:26 PDT Alexander Nassian wrote:
>> Why should that not be possible? With Chromium we already have L-GPLv2 and
>> many other. Qt itself is also available as v3.
> 
> WebKit (including JSC) was an exception and Chromium inherited that exception. 
> It's one that didn't please commercial customers much.
> 
> And they're LGPLv2. The v3 clauses cause lots of companies to run away.

Really? v3 just clarifies some of the implications of v2 in a more suitable way for lawyers. Many people that run away don't know how to get their products safe with the requirement to let the user on the system. But it's possible and no real reason against v3.

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>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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