[Interest] License regarding question

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Tue Nov 29 12:57:50 CET 2016



29.11.2016, 14:57, "André Somers" <andre at familiesomers.nl>:
> Op 29/11/2016 om 12:01 schreef Konstantin Tokarev:
>>  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.
>
> We did offer, in the license text in the about screen.

Ah, than it's probably OK

> We didn't ship
> the complete Qt sources with the product though, but we kept them them
> around in case anyone would ever ask. Same for some other libs we used
> and patched by the way. In my non-lawyer opinion, that is not an LGPL
> violation.
>
> André

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin



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