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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem by pavlov on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @12:31PM (#8143288)
LGPL allows only dynamic linking, i.e. the Qt libraries must remain separately loaded binaries and cannot be included into another project in object form.

I could see some reasons why a company would want to statically link Qt libraries into a larger binary. For that they'll need the commercial license.

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Re:Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem by __david__ on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @07:59PM (#8145566)
That's not precisely correct. You can statically link proprietary code with LGPL code and even distribute it, but you must also distribute the object code such that the user can re-link against newer/changed versions of the library to create a new static binary.
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