[Interest] Statically linking an open-source application with Qt?

Vik k digitloft at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 17:27:52 CEST 2016


Hey Nuno,

I've found this link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12654613/static-linking-qt-with-open-source-version
They say that I need to provide object files so user can relink the
application and it should be fine, in my case I provide the whole source,
so shouldn't it be totally fine?

Vik

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Nuno Santos <nunosantos at imaginando.pt>
wrote:

> To compile and deploy a statically linked Qt you need a comercial license.
>
> Nuno
>
> > On 26 Jul 2016, at 16:15, Vik k <digitloft at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey, I wrote an open source application using Qt and now I want to
> statically link it to the Qt library. My question is, is it legal to do so?
> >
> > On the website I am going to provide several download links to
> precompiled versions of my app for Windows, Mac and Linux and a link to the
> GitHub repository containing the source code of the application.
> >
> > My application will have no about section tho (as a matter of fact it
> does not have a menubar at all), is it also okay to write that I used Qt on
> the website & in the GitHub repo?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vik.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Interest mailing list
> > Interest at qt-project.org
> > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/attachments/20160726/9576afdf/attachment.html>


More information about the Interest mailing list