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Re:The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration by TjZkxkxeky on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:49PM (#36529940)
Qt's site does seem to be trying to scare you into believing that you can't possibly comply with the LGPL and you really really should buy the commercial license, for your own sake.

LGPL isn't really that onerous though..

However, new modules in Qt 6 and any rewrites of modules Qt 5-> 6are now GPL, which is rather copy-left and will spread to the rest of your code.

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Re:The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration by gettodachoppa on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:39AM (#36533151)
>However, new modules in Qt 6 and any rewrites of modules Qt 5-> 6are now GPL

That's very surprising, it would make upgrading from Qt 5 to Qt 6 a no-no for the small companies who use Qt LGPL. I'm sure they want to keep developer mindshare. Which LGPL Qt 5 modules became GPL in Qt 6?

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