[Interest] Qt-builds

Sergio Ahumada san at sansano.inf.utfsm.cl
Sat Jul 6 12:19:37 CEST 2013


Hi,

On 07/06/2013 11:52 AM, Bo Thorsen wrote:
>>>
>>> If everything is OK, can we also bundle such drivers in the official builds?
>>
>> As long as we don't ship the *actual* libraries for those plugins, just the
>> plugins, there's no chance of that being a problem. Our SQL driver code is
>> licensed under the standard Qt terms and that's what counts.
>>
>> If the library for that SQL database isn't present, the plugin won't load. In
>> order to load it, the application developers must supply the library and then
>> they must investigate the licensing terms thereof.
>
> True for Oracle and others, but for PostgreSQL and MariaDB (also works
> with MySQL) we can deliver the actual libraries, so it works out of the
> box. There is no license issue that stops us from doing it, but there
> could be other reasons.
>

AFAIU, with Qt 5.1.0 packages we are providing PostgreSQL plugins for 
Windows, Linux and Mac; and MySQL plugin on Linux.

At least on my system I got:

[seahumad at sahumada ~]$ ls -1 ~/Qt/5.1.0/gcc_64/plugins/sqldrivers/
libqsqlite.so
libqsqlmysql.so
libqsqlpsql.so

Cheers,
-- 
Sergio Ahumada
san at sansano.inf.utfsm.cl



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