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| author | Topi Reinio <topi.reinio@digia.com> | 2014-02-04 14:15:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Topi Reiniö <topi.reinio@digia.com> | 2014-02-06 12:44:51 +0200 |
| commit | 1b6fd6de76b4491902f519438ca0b8ed7582daa9 (patch) | |
| tree | e09964af596f7833db8a6a4c69d22e460c7012e1 /src/doc | |
| parent | ee9274a7de9a48d02c4a160499510a79dec2e658 (diff) | |
Doc: Add Android GCC run-time licensing information
Add license information specific to the libstdc++ library
used in the embedded Android images to the documentation.
Task-number: QTEE-306
Change-Id: I31cf6c1667a1af1638ff1d1b984321712d50ab26
Reviewed-by: Samuli Piippo <samuli.piippo@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eirik Aavitsland <eirik.aavitsland@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/doc/src/b2qt.qdoc | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/doc/src/b2qt.qdoc b/src/doc/src/b2qt.qdoc index e6676c2..c85513b 100644 --- a/src/doc/src/b2qt.qdoc +++ b/src/doc/src/b2qt.qdoc @@ -865,12 +865,28 @@ The third-party licenses used in \SDK are listed in the file \c {<INSTALL_DIR>/Licenses/ThirdPartySoftware_Listing.txt}. - \section2 Embedded Android Images + \section1 Embedded Android Images The embedded Android platform is built from the \e {Android Open Source Project}, source code available at \l {http://android.googlesource.com/}. The open source licenses and notices are collected into the file \c {/etc/NOTICE.html.gz} in the target images. + + \section1 Android GNU C++ Run-time Licensing + + The Android platform does not provide a full implementation of the C++ run-time. Instead, + apps that depend on features such as STL, exceptions, or RTTI, must include an additional + native run-time library that provides the features they need. + + \B2QA uses the GNU libstdc++ library distributed as part of the \e {Android Open Source Project}. + This library is included in the images for \B2QA, and will be loaded by the application + on start-up to meet the run-time requirements of Qt. + + The GNU C++ run-time is licensed under the + \l{http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/appendix_gpl.html}{GNU General Public License version 3} with + an exception which grants permission for run-time linking and usage of the library by an application which + would otherwise violate the terms of the main license. For more information about this exception, see + \l{http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/license.html}{the official license page}. */ /*! |