[Interest] qt installer framework with opesource license

Jenssen Tim Tim.Jenssen at digia.com
Fri Jan 25 14:35:07 CET 2013


> I'm little bit confused about Qt license.
> Right now I'm using opensource license, and I want to use Qt framework
> installer to distribute my app, however in qtifw docs they say to configure
> this framework with static Qt:
> http://doc.qt.digia.com/qtifw-1.2/ifw-getting-started.html
>
> So the question is can I freely distribute my app under opensource license
> using statically compiled installer framework?
> Or Should I place my generated installer.exe file along with installer.dll from
> this framework inside some directory and then distribute this package ?
> 
> I want to target Linux and Windows platform.

I am not a lawyer, but from my unstanding the whole ifw is opensource and the static linking problem comes only if you have closed source and want to use some opensource staticly linked.

So yes you can link and use the ifw static compiled.


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