[Qt-interest] VS 2010?

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 00:35, jjDaNiMoTh <jjdanimoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/3 Philippe <philwave at gmail.com>:
>>> The only point of having commercial version these days is to be able to
>>> change Qt source (any modifications to make it run on specific platform or bug fixes) without
>>> reporting the bugs/request changes and wait until the official version is updated.
>>
>> Right, but this is a major point if you are a reacting company with
>> demanding clients.
>
> Could you point me to some docs with this statement?
>
> Because I think that LGPL allow this, you need only to ship your patch
> to the Qt sources to your client (or, to be complete, the Qt sources
> patched).
>
> Open a bug report or share your modifications with the community is
> something you are incouraged to, so you can share work with the
> community as the community share with you. If you don't do this, you
> are a selfish, on my point of view (I don't want to hurt anyone).

While I fully agree with your views in that regard, I think (?) that
Philippe's point was more specific. For example, if you as a company
need to make alterations or fixes to Qt that won't be upstreamed
before your product's release, then under the LGPL, you would have
obligations with regards to distributing the modified source -
obligations which, to my understanding (IANAL), would persist for much
longer than may be practical if your company is not already used to
doing such things. It might not be an issue, but it certainly could be
a complication.

> For the time spent on compiling, maybe you want to take a look into
> ccache? It saves money.
+1 to this.

Cheers,
 - Jeffery MacEachern
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