On Wednesday 22 July 2015 21:15:18 Knoll Lars wrote:
> >I don't see how that is a problem. If that were a problem, you wouldn't be 
> >able to ship additional, commercial-only modules or allow installation of 
> >MinGW. So clearly the installer is allowed to install non-Qt things too.
> >
> >What am I missing?
> 
> MingW is an additional tool, not something our customers ship. 3rd party
> code inside our libraries is also something we can do if it's a free enough
> license (MIT/BSD/X11), but we can't shouldn't add LGPL code there without
> consent from the KDE Free Qt Foundation.

I see, that makes perfect sense.

So the IBus plugin needs to either be more permissively (non-copyleft) 
licensed or it needs to be provided to The Qt Company under the terms of the 
CLA.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

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