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Thanks for the LGPL license option Nokia. It's made Qt an available option for my development work. Any chance you'd go the extra mile and add a license excepti

Thanks for the LGPL license option Nokia. It's made Qt an available option for my development work. Any chance you'd go the extra mile and add a license exception to allow static linking?

icefox 16y ago
You can statically link if you provide all your objects. You can also release your source or just license the commercial Qt.
jules 16y ago
What's the advantage of static linking?
- tomjen3 16y ago
  The QT libraries are gigantic -- easily as big as the JVM, but unlike the JVM you aren't going to need most of what is there, so your programs will take up a lot less space if you statically link them. This won't matter if you ship 'em on DVD, but it makes a lot of difference if you provide downloads over the internet.
  - dchest 16y ago
    On Mac: QtCore - 5.7 MB QtGui - 24.4 MB QtNetwork - 2.6 MB QtSql - 0.5 MB Not so gigantic by today's standards: 33.2 MB, 12 MB zipped. For comparison, MacRuby.framework takes 51 MB, 17.3 zipped. PS But, of course, it would be nice to have a static linking-friendly [free of charge] license.
    - tomjen3 16y ago
      Do'h, I checked the size some months ago - but I must have had them compiled in debug mode. Still 30 MB is quite large to download over an average commercial internet link.