On 20/08/14 11:35, "Florian Weimer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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. You’re right. I had it on my list of things to fix, and somehow it slipped through. I added the note to the blog now. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
