[Qt-interest] Qt 4.5 Open Source (Windows) -- is it legal to redistribute the Qt DLLs?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at trolltech.com
Sat Mar 21 22:42:34 CET 2009


André Somers wrote:
>I am not sure if that is correct. If it is, then how on earth can it be
> that there are closed source device drivers and closed source
> applications around in the Linux ecosystem? Don't they link to system
> libraries?
>As I have understood it, it is allowed to link your closed source
>application to a GPL system lib. However, admittedly, there is a lot of
> grey area here... However: IANAL!

closed source drivers are a grey area. However, did you read what I said 
about system libraries on Linux?

Quote:

>>That's why the system libraries on Linux are
>>actually LGPL

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