[Qt-interest] Licensing

Graeme Gill graeme2 at argyllcms.com
Fri Jun 4 07:05:27 CEST 2010


Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

The fact that the linked object is a derived work doesn't magically
make the source to the non-gpl code that it is made from a derived work.
(ie. "derived" is a one way function. C = A + B,
  B isn't derived from A or C).

Graeme Gill.



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