[Development] State of LGPL exception after migration to LGPLv3

Edward Welbourne edward.welbourne at qt.io
Fri Jun 1 08:28:58 CEST 2018


Em segunda-feira, 17 de abril de 2017, às 04:24:25 PDT, Konstantin Tokarev escreveu:
>>> 1. Is it still legal to incorporate "inline functions and templates"
>>> into code not covered by LGPLv3? In particular, I'm interested in
>>> qAsConst

On 17 Apr 2017, at 18:07, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>> The LGPLv3 text contains the equivalent exception. See LICENSE.LGPLv3
>> section 3 "Object Code Incorporating Material from Library Header
>> Files."

Lars Knoll (18 April 2017 10:38)
> The LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt files should get removed from our
> sources. LGPLv3 covers this case directly.

Trippng over this in the tail of my in-box the other day, I checked and
found it hadn't happened so, after checking with Lars, got on with it.
The LGPL_EXCEPTION files are now gone (last integrated this morning).

	Eddy.



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