[Interest] Qt licensing and using qmake for non-Qt projects

[Guido Seifert]

What compiler do you use? Do you ask the same questions when you compile your code with the gcc? Or visual studio?

Guido

> Hi,
> 
> I tend to use QtCreator and qmake for all of my projects, even those that
> don't use Qt. Something I haven't really considered is how the usage of
> qmake might affect what I build with it from a licensing stand point.
> 
> qmake uses mkspecs, and (possibly?) other files from the qt source tree. On
> certain platforms, additional tools like androiddeployqt might also be used.
> 
> Could anyone clarify whether or not using qt build tools imposes any
> licensing requirements on the resulting binaries or packages? This is with
> the assumption that no other parts of the Qt library are being included, ie
> in a qmake project file:
> 
> CONFIG-=qt
> 
> or copied into the final package/binaries/etc.
> 
> 
> Preet