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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by rootlocus on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:25AM (#19127046)
From what I remember you need a commercial license to link QT statically so it's unavoidable. I'm guessing linux reuses the shared library, but apps on windows usually ship all DLLs alongside the binary.
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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by jchw on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:43AM (#19127087)
Qt for X11 was GPL since at least Qt 3, which certainly means you could legally link it with other GPL sources in any manner. I believe Qt 4 went LGPL for all platforms, so now I believe you can link it with pretty much anything that's open source, and dynamically link proprietary applications.

I am not a lawyer and some people disagree with how to interpret the rules of linking, but I think this is mostly the conventional wisdom.

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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by seba_dos1 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @07:06AM (#19127469)
You can link statically LGPL to anything, as long as you provide a way to relink by the user - so, .a or .o files available for download are enough.
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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by IshKebab on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:48AM (#19127099)
A commercial license, or you license your code as GPL or LGPL.
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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by beojan on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:43AM (#19127246)
> apps on windows usually ship all DLLs alongside the binary

Can someone tell me why this is the case? Beyond simply not having a package manager to do dependency resolution. You lose most of the benefits of shared libraries if you do this.

This is probably why dynamic linking appears to be decidedly a second-class citizen with Rust and co.

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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by setr on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:00AM (#19127290)
Afaik, they ship installers usually, not simply a dll binary for their local use; if its installed systemwide, no installation occurs, and if not, its installed system-wide. But the system’s copy is used generally, in either case.
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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by CamperBob2 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:10AM (#19127321)
Can someone tell me why this is the case?

Because hard disk space is dirt cheap and my time and sanity are not.

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Re:QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad app... by dman on Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:48AM (#19127251)
I dont believe you have to provide source - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...
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