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

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 23:04:08 CET 2015


On 13/03/15 23:11, Preet wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Guido Seifert <wargand at gmx.de
> <mailto:wargand at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     What compiler do you use? Do you ask the same questions when you
>     compile your code with the gcc? Or visual studio?
>
>     Guido
>
>
> No, but when you use a compiler directly there's usually no stage where
> interim code is added to the output if you don't explicitly specify it.

Code is added to your binaries. GCC has a special exception in the GPL 
for this, otherwise it would not possible to ship binaries that are not 
GPL-compatible. The license exception granted to you when you ship 
binaries that you compiled with GCC is this:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.html




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