[CMake] QtDialog isn't installed?

Hendrik Sattler post at hendrik-sattler.de
Tue Nov 20 11:46:06 EST 2007


Zitat von Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com>:

> On Nov 20, 2007 8:36 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hendrik Sattler wrote:
>>
>> >> Anyway, the GPL stuff still stands.
>> >
>> > Why don't you make the Qt dialog source GPL, then?
>> > With those restrictions, some Linux distributions will either strip the
>> > Qt dialog from the source or move whole cmake to an unofficial
>> > repository. Allowing everyone to change the source code (and distribute
>> > the result) is greatly preferred.
>> >
>>
>> People can change it all they want, it just won't get accepted upstream.
>>    I don't want to be forced to accept a license that I don't agree
>> with.  BTW, qt itself has the same sort of license.  Trolltech does not
>> accept changes from the community other than small bug fixes.  This is
>> so they can maintain the dual license that they have.  I don't think
>> there are linux distros that have stopped distribution of Qt are there?
>
> Stopping distribution of Qt isn't the issue.

I am not a lawyer but as I read the Qt license, I am not allowed to  
link the GPLed version of Qt to an application that is not GPLed  
itself. For binary distribution of applications, this is not an issue,  
even if you ship the source with it. But you are not allowed to build  
it on your own unless you have a commercial Qt license (although it  
would work just fine). None of the distributions match have such a  
license.

HS




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