[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

Philippe philwave at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 22:54:16 CET 2009


No, you are not paying for something you can't use... you are paying for
other things you can use!

And the situation has always been so. I mean, before this LPGL move, you
were not able, as a paying customer, to statically use LGPL stuff.

Philippe
(paying customer)

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:35:28 +0100
Robin Helgelin <lobbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 19:10, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > QtWebkit, QtMultimedia, QtHelp and Phonon have always been LGPL. That position
> > has not changed. If your application didn't use them before these modules
> > existed (pre 4.4), then nothing would change for you. You'd only need to
> > follow the new obligations if you *started* making use of these modules.
> 
> Yes, but it cripples me as a paying customer where I'm actually paying
> you (Nokia) for something I can't use.
> 
> -- 
>         regards,
>         Robin
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