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No, that's not true. The Qt Company makes stuff open source but it's open source under a license (GPL) you don't like because you want LGPL or even something more liberal that would allow you to use Qt for free in your closed-sourced application.

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Qt is licensed under LGPL v3

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/licensing.html

LGPLv3 is useless for people developing proprietary applications, which was what I was answering to. Those people want LGPLv2.1, which is how Qt used to be licensed during Nokia times.

How is the LGPLv3 materially different from LGPLv2.1? It's perfectly possible to use Qt under LGPLv3 in a closed source program with dynamic linking without much fuss.

> No, that's not true.

Which part is not true? It all looks correct to me.

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