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Qt license questions
1 point by ilSignorCarlo on March 11, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Hi, I'm working on a commercial software in c++ and Qt with other two friends.

We want to sell the software and distribute it with closed source.

Is the LGPL Qt license good for this? I mean, what are its restrictions? I've read something about static linking, but I'm not sure what it is.

Can you help me?

Thanks, Carlo



One-line summary of the LGPL: "If you make changes to this library, you have to make those changes public; but aside from that, your code remains your own."

It sounds to me like the LGPL Qt license will work fine for you. (But I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah.)




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