[Interest] [OT] Re: Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the softwar

2012-02-24 Thread Till Oliver Knoll
Am 24.02.2012 um 11:49 schrieb Thiago Macieira : > In summary: go talk to a lawyer. Me: "So I have this app which statically links against the LGPLed Qt lib. How do I prevent the VLC case? I can provide the object files, as I believe chapter 6b) of LGPL v2.1 requires me to make them available

Re: [Interest] Installing Qt SDK Problem Summary

2012-02-24 Thread Szalata, Zenon M.
Thank you all for helping, I have settled on building Qt 4.8 and creator 2.4.1 from sources. The process is more tedious but the results are more gratifying. Zen > -Original Message- > From: eike.zil...@nokia.com [mailto:eike.zil...@nokia.com] > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:37 AM >

[Interest] Code and API review request for Qt5 CMake files

2012-02-24 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi there, Qt5 generates its own CMake files, which you will be able to use to find Qt5 and build with it. That is, you will port from, eg find_package(Qt4 REQUIRED Core Gui Xml) to find_package(Qt5Widgets REQUIRED) find_package(Qt5Xml REQUIRED) find_package(Qt5Core) is also possible but is

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-24 Thread Thiago Macieira
On sexta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2012 10.16.04, eike.zil...@nokia.com wrote: > The thing that will definitely make your life hard when using a LGPL library > is the requirements from section 6 (from LGPLv2.1), which basically > requires you to provide means for users of your application to create

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-24 Thread Mandeep Sandhu
> That said I'm *not* one. But GnuGo & VLC are GPL, which is much more > restrictive than LGPL, so it is easier to "impose further restrictions". VLC's switching over to LGPL: http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html HTH, -mandeep > The LGPL on the other hand *does* allow your application that

Re: [Interest] Protection against a VLC-like enforcement: a Qt developers could send an infringement complaint about software distributed through he Apple App Store, and Apple pulling the software?

2012-02-24 Thread eike.ziller
On 21 Feb 2012, at 20:05, ext Erwin Coumans wrote: > I have some concerns regarding the LGPL license, statically linked in an > application distributed through the Apple App Store. > This was previously discussed here, but it ignore the a part of the LGPL > license about not imposing further r

Re: [Interest] Installing Qt SDK Problem Summary

2012-02-24 Thread eike.ziller
On 23 Feb 2012, at 19:13, ext Szalata, Zenon M. wrote: > Thank you Thiago, > If the "Pixmap is not an X11 ..." bug has been fixed, why then, the creator > installed with the SDK installer prints these messages? Is there a patch > that could be installed? The Qt Creator version in the SDK is s