[Qt-interest] LGPL and static linking

[andrew.m.goth at l-3com.com]

Daniel Grubbs wrote:
> It seems to me that it should be possible to write a 
> de-linker which would allow one to turn one's linked program 
> back into object files.  Wouldn't the existence of such a 
> program solve this whole problem?

Earlier tonight an off-the-wall idea came to me.  Deliver two (or more) .a files (archives of .o files), one of which is your program and the other is static Qt.  Also deliver a simple script to run ld on the .a files to make the executable.  Now you can't be accused of making a derivative of the Qt library.  If anyone's making a derivative, it's the customer, and he's doing it without access to your source code!

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Andy Goth
<amgoth at link.com>