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lpotter is offline lpotter
2008-01-31 , 23:58
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#58
Originally Posted by pycage View Post
AFAIK, a GPL'd (v2) library does not allow non-GPL programs linking it. That's why there is LGPL. But Qt is _not_ LGPL'd.
Of course you can make commercial programs on GPL, but not closed-source programs.

and thats what we want - more free open source applications, and less closed source applications!

The LGPL restricts the rights of the users.
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