[Interest] Qt free software policy

[Roland Hughes]

If you do not need the latest bells and whistles, drop back to Qt 4.8

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/opensourceedition.html

That version is rather prominent in the medical device world, because of 
the issues you bring up here.

On 8/14/19 1:36 PM, David M. Cotter wrote:
> +1 on this
>
> i am in the process of porting my legacy project to Qt and am afraid that i’ve made the wrong choice.  i’m just one guy and i bet my whole business on the availability of what  i need from Qt under LGPL
>
> i’m already using a third party HTTP server so i’m not affected by this but it’s a worrying sign. I too agree that the HTTP server really should be LGPL.
>
> What’s going to happen? It’s taken me over a year’s worth of work to get this far with Qt and i’m only half done. did i make the wrong choice?
>
> -dave

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