[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

Christian Dähn daehn at asinteg.de
Tue Dec 1 16:06:16 CET 2009


Robin Helgelin <lobbin at gmail.com> 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.

Exactly! We as company have the same problems:
Why to buy a commercial license for a toolkit where it's licenses
forbid the usage in commercial / closed source applications.

@QT / NOKIA:
How to solve the problems with the QtScript + WebKit LGPL licenses
in commercial applications where static linking is needed -
or better: where the customer doesn't have a chance or isn't allowed
to use shared libs?

I already asked this question before by an eMail to the sales team
last week - but nobody in a huge company like Nokia has time or is
willing to answer a commercial customer (like me).

Best Regards,
Chris





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