[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[Robin Helgelin]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 14:12, Konrad Rosenbaum <konrad at silmor.de> 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?

No, we bundle the application as a dynamic binary, however, we link Qt
as static, as we have our own self-update feature where we can't
afford the extra support of having users run their own version of Qt.

-- 
        regards,
        Robin