[Qt-interest] Licensing

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quarta-feira 2. Junho 2010, às 20.03.28, Kustaa Nyholm escreveu:
> But my point is that I can statically link my application as long as
> I do not deny the users the right to re-link it.
> 
> And I can do that with static linking if in addition to  the statically
> linked  application executable  I will distribute the unlinked object
> files of the application as well.
> 
>  I was further speculating that under 6c I would not even have to
> distribute those unlinked object files if I just promised in writing to
> deliver them on request.

That's how I personally read the LGPL, but that's not necessarily how everyone 
might.

You have to deal with the risk that someone considers static linking as 
derived work and thus requests not only the ability to relink, but access to 
the source code.

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