Re:Qt and Open Source
by de_watcher on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:25AM
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You can link statically. Oh my god, we've been over this infinite number of times.
Yes you can, but if you do that you have to release the Object files and make it possible for the customers to link them to their own Qt version.
This is a much greater hassle than just linking dynamically, so we don't do it.
Re:Qt and Open Source
by de_watcher on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:45AM
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Usually nobody asks to release. It's a risk to get that kind of request, but it's way more trivial than routine software development risks.
My point is that my company would be willing to pay for Qt (and it did pay in the past), but not that much. In the current situation they don't get any money from us at all.