LGPL a possibility for Breeze Qt widget style?

[Elvis Stansvik]

2017-03-09 19:21 GMT+01:00 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
> 2017-03-09 18:41 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org>:
>> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 06:30:36PM +0100, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
>>> I just wish the FSF FAQ was more clear on this (direct dynamic linking vs
>>> dlopen()ing).
>>
>> They can't be more clear as the definition of derived work is set by
>> legislatures and courts in different justictions and will differ.
>
> Ah yes, that is true. But it would still be nice if they did a
> write-up on what their intention is, even if it's always up to the
> copyright legislation in the applicable jurisdictions in the end. They
> do elaborate on their view of the distinction between fork/exec and
> dynamic linking in their FAQ after all.

In the end, I realized it wasn't really feasible to bundle Breeze
inside the AppImage anyway, because of the many KF5 dependencies. I
thought that the widget style .so would only have Qt as dependency,
but realize now that it does a fair amount of integration with Plasma
as well.

Elvis

>
> Elvis
>
>>
>> Also they don't want to be clear, they want everything to be GPL.
>>
>> Jonathan