On 17/09/14 20:00, "André Somers" <[email protected]> wrote: >>Op 17 sep. 2014 om 18:05 heeft Thiago Macieira >><[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: >> >>> On Wednesday 17 September 2014 14:06:15 André Somers wrote: >>> Absolutely. FOSS users have, by definition, every right to modify the >>> source code. So yes, the current qt.io site is very misleading there. >> >>> They just don't have the right to publish closed source software based >>> on those modified sources without releasing those modifications to >>>their >>> users (well, sort off. It is of course a bit more involved than that.) >> >> That last sentence is true, but unrelated to making modifications. >>Every user >> of Qt under the LGPL must publish the version of Qt they used, >>REGARDLESS of >> whether they modified it or not. They have to publish it on their own >>servers. >> >> Pointing to qt-project.org or qt.io servers is not enough to fulfil the >> requirements of the licence. The licence requires that the distributor >>of the >> software (v2) or the "conveyor" of the software (v3) also offer the >>source of >> the library. It's the responsibility of that person and you cannot pass >>it >> along to someone else. >> > >Still not quite true, and besides the point too. We were talking about if >the statement on Qt.io is true. It is not. I was not suggesting an >alternative. Also note that there is no requirement to offer Qt on your >own server. There are different ways to fulfill the requirement from the >license, that is, _if_ somebody requests the sources at all to begin >with. If we were to decide to send the customer that requests the Qt >sources a DVD that contains them, that would be legal as far as I >understand the license. The again, IANAL, and neither are you...
It's supposed to mean that you can modify Qt's source code without having to release the changes. I agree that the text is not clear enough and it should be somehow changed. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
