Happy Sankranthi

Jan 14, 2009 20:00

Nokia decided to give the Qt community a nice present on Sankranti

An LGPL license option for Qt

Sweet

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LGPL 2.1, Qt 4.5 and C++ templates: anonymous January 15 2009, 06:09:18 UTC
"The LGPL requires that users be able to replace the LGPL code with a modified version; this is trivial if the library in question is a C shared library. But there's no way to make that work with C++, where much of the library consists of inline functions and templates, which are expanded inside the code that uses the library. So to allow people to replace the library code, someone using the library would have to distribute their own source, rendering the LGPL equivalent to the GPL."
http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/lgpl-21-qt-45-and-c-templates

It might be some complexity that needs to be addressed.

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