Qt does not require commercial licensers to ever publish any modified source code used in Qt, ever. The *pl licenses do. Its that simple. Its not BSD.
-J On May 21, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Benoit Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: 2009/5/21 Jason H <[email protected]>: That is great, but the commercial licensers have no obligation to distribute any code. Nor do the LGPL licenses require them to publish any code... The library is LGPL3, at best, and therefore while able to be used in commercial software, cannot be used by commercial licensers. I don't follow. What prevents commercial software from using simultaneously a commercially-licensed Qt and LGPL-licensed Eigen? Note I'm not a Nokia employee, just a commercial licenser of Qt, but I also cannot ship any opensource code wih my products. If Qt uses eigen, then I can't ship it. Why would you ever have to ship Eigen with your product? As part of a SDK? Eigen is only a build-time dependency, there is no runtime library to ship. Even assuming you had to ship Eigen alongside your product, how could that possibly be a problem? It's just an assortment of text files; that they carry a LGPL license doesn't imply that the rest of your product does. Benoit _______________________________________________ Qt4-preview-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt4-preview-feedback
