[Qt-interest] Licensing

[Jason H]

My experience and yours seem to be in direct conflict.



----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 5:54:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Licensing

Actually, having done exactly that, if your services install into their own location, they should not be in your path.

This way there is no Qt dll conflict, windows looks in cwd() first (excluding sxs issues)

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Jason H
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:46 PM
To: Thiago Macieira; qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Licensing

There is one place where the .DLLs are not always possible.

That is as a Windows Service using the QtService solution. Those DLLs need to be in the system PATH or the system directories. If you have multiple services using Qt, and they need specific versions you can find yourself in DLL hell. The only way is to statically link Qt in. There may be a way to use the SxS/Manifest file stuff in VS2005+ to fix it, but I don't know how at this time. 




----- Original Message ----
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 9:57:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Licensing

Em Quinta-feira 03 Junho 2010, às 14:44:55, Scott Aron Bloom escreveu:
> My basic view is this, when Nokia made this decision to go LGPL, they
> must have had an expectation in mind of how closed source developers
> would use the license, a preferred way if you will.  My plea, is just
> document that preferred way, and let us developers follow it.

In order of preference, we'd like:

1) that you release the sources
2) link dynamically

That doesn't mean they're the only available options to you. But we clearly 
prefer that you link dynamically. Then we have nice libQtCore.so or 
QtCore4.dll files around in your app :-)

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