[Development] State of LGPL exception after migration to LGPLv3

Lars Knoll lars.knoll at qt.io
Fri Jun 1 08:39:17 CEST 2018


> On 1 Jun 2018, at 08:28, Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> 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).

Thanks Eddy!

Lars



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