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Why does Qt need a commercial license? I thought it is available under LGPL?
by mepian 3y ago
Why does Qt need a commercial license? I thought it is available under LGPL?
- lolinder 3y agoPresumably because they don't actually want to license their project under the GPL.
- mepian 3y agoLGPL doesn’t require them to license their project under GPL, it’s more permissive than you seem to think: https://fluendo.com/en/blog/gpl-vs-lgpl/ https://fluendo.com/en/blog/gpl-vs-lgpl/
- lolinder 3y agoAh, I either didn't see the L or you edited it in after I already started replying. I thought Qt was plain GPL.
- this_machine 3y agoLGPL only stipulates that users have the freedom to link against their own version of the LGPL library you're using. You don't have to open source anything if you don't want to.