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Qt is LGPL. You know what else requires you to respect the LGPL ? Electron becauses it is built mainly on LGPL components (Blink, FFMPEG to name the biggest one
by jcelerier 5y ago
Qt is LGPL. You know what else requires you to respect the LGPL ? Electron becauses it is built mainly on LGPL components (Blink, FFMPEG to name the biggest ones). If you are ok with the license of Electron you are ok with the license of Qt.
- yayr 5y agoElectron is MIT licensed. Not LGPL. https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/LICENSE So everyone can use it without the need to expose his IP.
- jcelerier 5y agoThe MIT license only covers what Electron adds to Blink (the rendering engine, which is under LGPL). It does not replace all the licenses of the various components used as part of Electron for which you still have to comply. See for instance one of the most core Blink data structures: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/refs/heads/main/Source/core/html/HTMLElement.h https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/refs/head... That is the exact same license than Qt, you do not need to expose your IP when using it (Tesla used LGPL Qt for their car dashboards and you don't see that IP floating around on the internet)