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    Default Another licensing question

    I thought I understood the Qt licensing strategy, but I went to the Qt Company's "Products & Features" page and now I am confused.
    If I select "LGPL v3" for the license model the development platform defaults to "Windows". When I change the dev platform to "Linux" the license model switches to "Commercial".
    I can't seem to get a filter that shows me available features for "LGPL v3" and "Linux".
    But I do find plenty of libqt packages in my package manager on Linux Mint. (libqt5core5a, libqt5gui5, ...)
    So, can I develop on Linux for Linux with Qt using the LGPL v3 license?

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    Default Re: Another licensing question

    Qt Company's "Products & Features" page
    I think that page is buggy. If you change any of the drop-downs, it changes others at the same time. LGPL v3 is available on all platforms AFAIK.

    Try this page instead and click the "View other options" link if needed to get to the platform you want. Qt seems to have adopted a strategy of making it as hard as possible to use Qt under LGPL by making you jump through all sorts of hoops to get it.
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