[QScintilla] No more license exceptions?

[Phil Thompson]

On 11 Mar 2016, at 1:09 pm, Marc Gronle <marc.gronle at ito.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
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> Hi Phil,
> 
> we were also very suprised to hear about that change in the licensing without any notification in the release messages on your website. Without the mail from Alan we would propably never have realized this important change. Our software is LGPL licensed and would also not be able to link against new versions of QScintilla. We would also really appreciate if any kind of exception allowing this could be re-introduced. 

Apologies for not making it more clear.

Unlike the other licenses there is no problem with you linking a pure GPL QScintilla with your LGPL code. It's up to you whether you want to accept the additional committments that that implies.

Qt is moving to either GPL & commercial or LGPL & commercial depending on the nature of the product and I want to have things similarly simple. There is an argument (especially given the previous exceptions) that QScintilla should be aligned with Qt (and therefore be LGPL) rather than, say, QtCharts. I will give that serious consideration.

Phil