[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
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Regards,
Konstantin
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