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They 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.
by johannes1234321 7y ago
They 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.