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Re:GoQt by SwellJoe on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:06PM (#10964471)
I don't understand this comment. Isn't it still under LGPL or more liberal licenses, depending on the component, as it has always been? According to the website, it is.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/licensing.html

I see nothing in that list that seems different or that would prevent one from building commercial products on Qt without licensing fees.

Re:GoQt by forgettableuser on Sunday January 24, 2016 @08:19PM (#10965011)
LGPL v3 is _really_ complicated. That's a red flag for a lot of corporate lawyers.

As a result, some issues arise, such as code that is stuck on GPLv2 (e.g. removed the upgrade clause like the Linux kernel) may be incompatible with LGPLv3.

This blog tries to explain some of the issues. http://nmav.gnutls.org/2013/03/the-perils-of-lgplv3.html

Re:GoQt by belorn on Monday January 25, 2016 @04:41AM (#10966347)
I strongly disagree, since at a conceptual level it is a very simple license. As a distributor, you got provide users with the source code of the LGPLv3 parts and permit/provide so they can replace it with a modified version of their choice.

To make a car analogy, if the tires are made under LGPLv3, you got to tell them what kind of rubber it is made of and permit car owners to change the tire without the car saying "unapproved parts used, so I will refuse to start now until you have bought approved tires from an official car dealer". Every car made before 2000 managed to do this without even thinking about it.

FSF consider GPLv2 to be incompatible with this deal from a US-legal view, which is the same view that claim "further restrictions" only covers restrictions made from software licenses.

Re:GoQt by rcxdude on Sunday January 24, 2016 @07:00PM (#10964681)
It's gone from (L)GPL v2 to v3, which some companies care a lot about (e.g. Apple).
Re:GoQt by SwellJoe on Monday January 25, 2016 @12:41PM (#10968566)
Apple already refused to use LGPL v2 stuff. They refused to use anything (L)GPL in the past and now they continue to refuse to use anything (L)GPL. Apple is not a useful data point about what has changed, because they have not changed position based on v2 vs v3.