[HN Gopher] Using Qt 6 under LGPLv3
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       Using Qt 6 under LGPLv3
        
       Author : synergy20
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2023-01-07 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Rochus wrote:
       | > _Qt for MCU [..] seems like a big advantage over Qt LGPL-3.0. I
       | have my doubts. MCUs powerful enough to run Qt GUIs smoothly are
       | more expensive than, say, an i.MX6ULL with a Cortex-A7
       | application processor and Linux. It's a lot easier to find
       | developers for an embedded Linux system ..._
       | 
       | This is a very convincing argument. A Linux embedded system is
       | also more flexible and the degree of code reusability is usually
       | higher; it's also easier to develop and debug, and one can profit
       | of a huge ecosystem (e.g. OTA update and the like).
       | 
       | > _Shall we use Qt LGPL-3.0 or Qt Commercial?_
       | 
       | LeanQt (https://github.com/rochus-keller/leanqt/) is still
       | available under LGPL v2.1. I will not switch to Qt 6 with my
       | projects.
        
       | fmntf wrote:
       | > We must not use [...] Qt Creator [...] to build software using
       | Qt LGPL-3.0 or Qt GPL. It doesn't matter whether these tools are
       | also available under a non-commercial Qt license.
       | 
       | This is the weirdest part of Qt licensing for me. An IDE is an
       | IDE, you should not care what I develop with it. I don't even
       | understand how is that possible, since Qt Creator is GPL3.
        
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