I'm developing an application with the Qt open source edition. As I don't want to deliver the Microsoft Visual Visual C(++) redistributables, I'd like to use a static-linked version of Qt. The Qt licensing information says that I "should" develop with a commercial Qt license if I want to use static linking in my application, although when I use the configure -static command for building a static Qt library the command prompt asks me if I use the commercial or open source version of Qt.

So it is possible to build Qt with the open source version? Do I need the commercial edition to use static linking? I won't sell the application.

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