[Interest] QML vs Electron

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 07/08/18 01:19, Sylvain Pointeau wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:56 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo <dangelog at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dangelog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Out of curiosity, what prevented you from going with LGPL Qt?
> 
> On desktop it is clear but on mobile, there was no clear statement if we 
> have the rights or not.
> Seems like LGPL is not friendly with the various stores.

It's fine on Android, since Qt for Android uses dynamic linking by 
default. On iOS you only get static linking right now, and I'm not sure 
if you can build Qt for iOS yourself and configure it for dynamic 
linking, and whether Apple now allows dynamically linked iOS apps. The 
solution of making re-linkable object files available for iOS to comply 
with the LGPL is not suitable for everyone. And it's a useless solution 
anyway, unless people jailbreak their Apple devices so that they can 
sideload apps. Even though it satisfies LGPL requirements on your part, 
it doesn't on Apple's part. So you end up in a situation where people 
can claim that Apple does not have the right to distribute your 
application. And that would still apply even if you used dynamic linking.

But in any case, Android seems fine when using LGPL libraries, since a) 
Qt is linked to dynamically, and b) Android officially supports sideloading.