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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by enriquto on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:40AM (#23322286)
> Bundling LGPL code in a binary, as mobile may require, instead of loading as dynamic library, requires you to get an LGPL exception from the copyright holder.

How come? The LGPL allows people to distribute statically compiled binaries that use Qt, you do not need an exception for that.

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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by csdreamer7 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:03AM (#23323393)
> The LGPL allows people to distribute statically compiled binaries that use Qt

Hmmm... you can as long as you provide an object. Learned something new today. I do remember Mike discussing that on Coder Radio that would be an issue in the security industry. I assuming there were some aerospace libraries that are NDAed/restricted by national security laws.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10130143/gpl-lgpl-and-st...

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic

Is this possible on iOS? Not familiar with iOS dev, but I assume Apple may have some TOS problems with that.

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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by jcelerier on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:15AM (#23324590)
It is, Cisco does it for one of their apps which uses Gstreamer on iOS.

See the note here at the end: https://github.com/freedesktop/gstreamer/blob/master/README....

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