[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[Jeroen De Wachter]

Hi Konrad,

I already explained our issue with dynamic linking last week.
http://lists.trolltech.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2009-November/015873.html

I'm sure there are other valid points to be made as well...

Kind regards,

Jeroen De Wachter

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:12 +0100, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 13:57:32 Robin Helgelin wrote:
> > What about Webkit? I was told that as Webkit is LGPL, I'm not able to
> > static link to Webkit even though I have a commercial license of Qt.
> > If this also happens with QtScript, it means that all licenses becomes
> > unusable for us if we still want to use the whole Qt stack.
> 
> 
> out of curiosity: why do people prefer static linking? Why do you consider 
> dynamic linking bad?
> 
> Maybe this discussion helps to enlighten all of us... ;-)
> 
> 
> 	Konrad
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