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by jcelerier 2841 days ago
> As long as you don’t statically link the QT libraries you don’t have to open source your entire commercial application

I provided a link from the FSF that shows that this is not the case just below - you can statically link proprietary apps with LGPL qt.

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“(1) If you statically link against an LGPL'd library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.”

So for LGPL. As a commercial application developer I’m not sure I’d want to do that. I’d then have to field support requests for that object file.

Still, good to know.