On 08/20/2014 11:30 AM, Knoll Lars wrote: > On 20/08/14 11:16, "Florian Weimer" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 08/20/2014 11:02 AM, Knoll Lars wrote: >> >>> Please have a look at >>> http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/08/20/adding-lgpl-v3-to-qt/ for >>> details. >> >> Looking at the Fedora corpus, there are quite a few programs which link >> against Qt and which are licensed under the GPL, version 2, but not any >> later versions. If Qt gradually moves new components to the LGPLv3, >> this could threaten the future evolution of these programs. > > This is not a problem as far as I can see for two reasons: > > 1. We don’t remove LGPLv2 for any of the libraries that are part of 5.3.
What I meant that future development of these programmers might be interesting in LGPLv3-only features. > 2. We explicitly added GPLv2 to the new libraries to make sure open source > projects that are using GPLv2 only do not have issues using the new > libraries. This is not mentioned in the blog post AFAICT. It would address the concerns I have raised. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
