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0 pointsjcelerier6y ago0 comments

Felgo most certainly uses Qt through the commercial license so nothing is LGPL here.

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Right. Now imagine it didn't. What then?

you ask them for the LGPL package, they send it to you, you compile ?

The onus is on the person making the app that links against the LGPL library to provide you with the build instruction.

At worse they would give you their main static library and Qt LGPL source code and you just have to relink them and open Xcode to upload it to your iDevice ?

Here is for instance the source code for the telegram app for iOS which is under GPL : https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS

there is no difference with... basically every other open source project ? Open the .xcodeproj, build, run.

jacobush6y ago

I am not talking primarily about open source projects, but about closed source projects with LGPL components on app stores. You’d need the proprietary main object from them. Also, requiring that your users have an Apple dev account before they can execute their rights is problematic at best. I am not alone in rejecting Qt on these grounds, in favour of some MIT or similarly licensed alternative.

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jacobush6y ago

Right. Now imagine it didn't. What then?

jcelerierOP6y ago

you ask them for the LGPL package, they send it to you, you compile ?

The onus is on the person making the app that links against the LGPL library to provide you with the build instruction.

At worse they would give you their main static library and Qt LGPL source code and you just have to relink them and open Xcode to upload it to your iDevice ?

Here is for instance the source code for the telegram app for iOS which is under GPL : https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS

there is no difference with... basically every other open source project ? Open the .xcodeproj, build, run.

jacobush6y ago

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