Hey now. I'm not "paranoid" or "idiotic", just lazy enough to be willing to pay for a commercial license so I don't have to worry about staying LGPL compliant.
Karl On 2012-08-15 08:12, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: > You are missing my point: there are only a few areas where you can't use > (L)GPL. Then there are a lot of paranoid bosses who simply refuse to use > (L)GPL'ed software although they could, or who make idiotic demands on locking > down the software. You can use the commercial license of Qt in those cases. > > LGPL helps in a lot of cases where the paranoia level is as low as the > shoestring R&D budget (this usually correlates, since lawyers are expensive): > you can start using Qt under LGPL although the application is non-GPL. There > is a huge class of applications for which the LGPL requirements are not a > problem (uncritical desktop or phone apps) and another huge class in which you > give the user the LGPL rights, but tell them that you only support it if they > keep your version of Qt (production that does not threaten lives if the > software fails). > > Konrad
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