[QScintilla] No more license exceptions?

[agarny at hellix.com]

On 2016-03-11 14:33, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2016, at 1:09 pm, Marc Gronle
> > 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.

Thanks Phil. LGPL & Commercial would certainly be my preference too.

Alan