[Development] Adding 3rdpary libraries to QtSerialBus

[Konstantin Tokarev]

12.08.2016, 07:32, "Alexander Nassian" <nassian at bitshift-dynamics.de>:
> Interesting enough that Qt itself switched the OSS license to v3 ...

Don't mix up changing license of your project to more restrictive with using restrictively licensed 3rd party libraries.

>
>>  Am 11.08.2016 um 22:22 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>>
>>  On quinta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2016 19:50:35 PDT Alexander Nassian wrote:
>>>>  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.
>>
>>  The "v3" is hardly "just clarifies" over the v2. It adds at least two extra
>>  provisions:
>>  * the patent grant
>>  * the "installation instructions" clause
>>
>>  Regardless of whether the reasons why companies run away is valid or not, the
>>  fact is that they do. I submit Evidence A: Apple stopped updating GCC when it
>>  went GPLv3 in version 4.3 and instead started their own compiler.
>>
>>  So it's unimportant whether the reasons are valid. It's important that we
>>  understand the consequences if we do choose to accept an LGPLv3 dependency.
>>
>>  --
>>  Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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