[Interest] License regarding question

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Tue Nov 29 12:01:03 CET 2016



29.11.2016, 13:51, "André Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl>:
> Op 29/11/2016 om 11:42 schreef Alexander Dyagilev:
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  We use Qt under LGPL license.
>>
>>  We have found some problem in it (bug working with HTTPS on limited
>>  connection speed) and fixed it. We have recompiled Qt then.
>>
>>  What do we must to do next to obey the license terms?
>>
>>  Publish the changes somewhere?
>
> We ended up shipping the actual patches we made in the installer,
> putting them in a separate directory together and referencing them from
> the licences section in our about box. We kept around the Qt sources for
> the Qt we shipped with the product in the office in case anyone would
> ever ask for them (nobody ever did, of course).

Looks like a violation of LGPL. Section 6 requires you to provide
_complete_ source code or written offer to do so.

>
> AINAL.
>
> Then: please upstream your fixes to Qt by going through the contribution
> steps.
>
> André
>
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Konstantin



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