LGPL a possibility for Breeze Qt widget style?

[Christoph Feck]

On 11.03.2017 16:44, Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> 2017-03-10 23:26 GMT+01:00 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>
> For the heck of it, I gave it a go anyway, and it seems to work out
> fine. I was able to build/install ECM, KWindowSystem, KConfig,
> KGuiAddons, KCodecs, KWidgetAddons, KCoreAddons, KAuth, KI18n,
> KConfigWidgets, KArchive, KPackage and finally Breeze in the CentOS
> 6.7 Docker image I use for AppImage builds. The additional breeze.so +
> dependencies added around 7 MB to my image. This is quite a chunk, but
> I think it's acceptable, to get the Breeze look, since the primary
> target machines will be running Plasma. Everything seems to be working
> fine from my first tests, the AppImage even respects the Breeze
> settings and color scheme from "outside" the image.

The biggest chunk is the kcharselect-data file (3 MiB). If your 
application does not use the KCharSelect widget, you can simply omit the 
file.

For a future KF5 version, I plan to make the KCharSelect class work 
better when the data file is missing.

Christoph Feck