[Interest] Providing custom lib with static Qt modules (so no Qt dependency)

Graeme Gill graeme2 at argyllcms.com
Wed Feb 29 01:52:38 CET 2012


Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>   IMPORTANT NOTE:
> 
>   If you're distributing Qt under the LGPL license,
>   by statically linking to the Qt libraries you are
>   creating an obligation to distribute *ALL OF YOUR
>   SOURCE CODE* that links to those libraries.

You conclusion is incorrect.

If you read the LGPL you will notice that your obligation is to
provide a means for the user to update the LGPL code. You can
do this (for instance) by providing the .o to your
code, so that they can re-create the static executable
by simply linking it to an updated Qt.

Graeme Gill.



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