[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[Raul Metsma]

Because it's to old sometimes or has bugs which we cannot fix

Raul Metsma

Arnold Krille wrote:
> 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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