[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[Arnold Krille]

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:25:43 william.crocker at analog.com wrote:
> 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.

So why not link dynamically and let the system use the system-wide installed 
Qt library? No need for LD_LIBRARY_PATH if /usr/lib (or any other lib-path in 
/etc/ld.so.conf) contains the libraries...

Arnold
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