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It's the same anti-tvoization stuff as GPL3. Companies were giving out the source code, but used locked down hardware or proprietary toolchains so the source co
by slavik81 10y ago
It's the same anti-tvoization stuff as GPL3. Companies were giving out the source code, but used locked down hardware or proprietary toolchains so the source code was useless. What LGPL3 specifies over LGPL2 is that the source code needs to actually be usable. The spirit of that rule rather makes sense to me.
Of course, part of the reason why The Qt Company likes LGPL3 is that other companies are going to look at the requirements to use and distribute open toolchains for their supported platforms and just buy a commercial license instead.
- joezydeco 10y agoThe funny thing is that the Yocto project has kind of eliminated a lot of the hurdles. You could technically branch a .bb recipe for your kernel and boardset and everything else would build on its own, including the SDK with toolchain wrapped in. Qt seems to be almost caught up with getting qt5 in the meta directories and having everything in place.