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A lot of noise for no reasons. You can not enforce login in for GPL / LGPL software distribution. Meaning this is just probably that the "click/download" link
by adev_ 7y ago
A lot of noise for no reasons.
You can not enforce login in for GPL / LGPL software distribution.
Meaning this is just probably that the "click/download" link for the binary official SDK on the official website will require registration, nothing else.
If it's really the case, they should be clearer in their explanations.
- johannes1234321 7y agoThey can enforce it for downloads from their site. By adding some non-free component into that process they can make it hard for others to ship those packages. However as long as they use (L)GPL and don't play trademark games, they can't stop others from providing builds. For such builds there is a question how trustworthy they are (afaik there are no reproducible builds for Qt) and how hard maintaining such builds is.
- adev_ 7y ago> For such builds there is a question how trustworthy they are (afaik there are no reproducible builds for Qt) To their defense, very few organizations have reproducible build systems and when they have, it's not compatible with the package manager of the Linux distros anyway
- johannes1234321 7y agoRight, but Qt builds one can probably trust. Some random account on GitHub less.