[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[william.crocker at analog.com]

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?
>
>   

My application runs as root and so use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH (etc) is not 
permitted
and I do not want to have to worry about how every computer among the
thousands on which it runs within my enterprise finds the Qt libs.

Bill