[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

Christian Dähn daehn at asinteg.de
Tue Dec 1 18:23:48 CET 2009


Hi Bastian,

Bastian Bense <bastibense at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe I missed something here, but why is LGPL licensed software such a big problem with some customers/companies?
> We are developing closed source applications that dynamically link against Qt libraries, and I never heard any of our customers having problems with that fact.

You missed the discussion about the need of static linking for some
projects / apps.

If you as developer/company don't have the free choice to use shared binaries,
you'll run into problems with LGPL libs - there's no need to discuss 
"Why not use shared binaries?" any more, we all know the pros and contras.

Best Regards,
Chris






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