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["William A. Rowe Jr." <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/8/2010 3:04 AM, Adam Baxter wrote:
>>I assume by "users" you mean "developers"
> Not necessarily. The QT libraries are 6MB (QT Core and QT GUI), and the
> Windows apps I've seen so far are dynamically linked. If CoApp packages
> mean users only have to download the QT libraries once, that'd be quite
> helpful for people on low-bandwidth and metered connections

But that isn't relevant to the question of 'who cares about the license?'

Yes - I meant that 99.9% of the time, we are worried about informing the
developer that the license that applies to their dependencies would trigger
either copyleft of that dependency, or copyleft of the entire work they
create on top of that dependency.

Users generally won't care, provided they are able to install and use the
things.  CoApp in general should solve the download-once troubles, which
is one of about four reasons this effort interests me :)