On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:56:00AM +0000, Koehne Kai wrote: > > [...] > > We agreed with Kai on IRC, when discussing this topic, that we would ask the > > udev mailing list for an authoritative reply unless someone can confirm that > > on this list just as well. > > Actually I just checked the sources, and libudev is licensed under > LGPL 2.1 or newer. That means AFAIK that we can link against it > statically in the open source version of Qt, but not in the enterprise > one ... > the lgpl does not limit how *we* can build and distribute our packages, because we ship the sources anyway. the ones who'd have a problem would be our customers.
but why is everyone talking about static linking, anyway? the decision to ship a copy of the library, and the way it is linked, are orthogonal. QtAngle demonstrates how to make a fully dynamic version. QtZlib shows how to fake it. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
