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@@ -33,45 +33,54 @@
Qt is available under three different licensing options designed to accommodate
the needs of our various users.
+ \list
+ \li Qt Commercial License
+ \li GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3
+ \li GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1
+ \endlist
+
+ \note Some specific parts (modules) of the Qt framework are not available
+ under the GNU LGPL version 2.1. See \l {Licenses Used in Qt} for details.
+
Qt licensed under our \l{Qt Commercial License}{commercial license agreement}
is appropriate for development
of proprietary/commercial software where you do not want to share any source code
with third parties or otherwise cannot comply with the terms of the GNU LGPL
- version 2.1 or GNU GPL version 3.0.
+ version 3 or the GNU LGPL version 2.1.
+
+ Qt licensed under the \l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)} version 3
+ is appropriate for the development of Qt applications provided you can comply
+ with the terms and conditions of the GNU LGPL version 3 (or GNU GPL version 3).
Qt licensed under the \l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)} version 2.1
is appropriate for the development of Qt applications provided you can comply
with the terms and conditions of the GNU LGPL version 2.1.
- Qt licensed under the \l{GNU General Public License (GPL)} version 3.0 is
- appropriate for the development of Qt applications where you wish to use such
- applications in combination with software subject to the terms of the GNU GPL
- version 3.0 or where you are otherwise willing to comply with the terms of the
- GNU GPL version 3.0.
-
Qt documentation is licensed under the terms of the \l{GNU Free Documentation
License (FDL)} version 1.3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Alternatively, you may use the documentation in accordance with the terms
contained in a written agreement between you and Digia.
- Please see \l{http://qt.digia.com/licensing} for an overview of Qt licensing.
+ Please see \l{http://qt.io/licensing/} for an overview of Qt licensing.
\section1 Purchasing and Sales Information
To purchase or further information and assistance about Qt commercial licensing,
- please contact Digia Qt sales via one of the following channels:
+ please contact our sales via one of the following channels:
\table
- \row \li Web: \li \l{http://qt.digia.com/contact-us}
+ \row \li Web: \li \l{http://qt.io/contact-us/}
\row \li Phone, U.S. office (for sales in North America): \li \b{+1 408 433 9320}
\row \li Phone, Norway office (for sales in the rest of the world): \li \b{+47 2108 0420}
\endtable
\section1 Licenses Used in Qt
- The following table lists the \l{ Licenses Used in Qt}{other licenses used in Qt},
- not provided under the \l{GNU General Public License (GPL)},
- \l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)} or the \l{Qt Commercial License}.
+ The following table lists parts of Qt that incorporate code licensed under
+ licenses other than \l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)} or the
+ commercial license, as well as Qt modules that are only available under a
+ specific license or a version of a license.
+
\l{Third-Party Licenses Used in Qt}{Third-party licenses} used in libraries that
are supplied alongside Qt modules are also listed.
@@ -81,7 +90,7 @@
\table 80%
\header \li Qt Module/Tool \li Component \li Description \li License Type \li Notes
- \row \li {1,25} Qt Core
+ \row \li {1,26} Qt Core
\row \li \l{QCrashHandler class}{QCrashHandler}
\li Parts of implementation of QCrashHandler class. \li BSD-style \li
@@ -132,17 +141,15 @@
\li implements the SHA-3 encryption algorithm. \li BSD \li
\row \li \l{Data Compression Library (zlib) version 1.2.5}{zlib}
\li zlib is a general purpose data compression library. \li BSD-style \li
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,11} Qt Gui
+ \row \li {1,12} Qt Gui
\row \li \l{QKeyMapper class on X11 platforms}{QKeyMapper}
\li Internal class for key mapping. \li Custom, BSD-style \li \l {Qt for Linux/X11}
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{Other Licenses Used in Qt#FreeType}{FreeType}
\li Parts of FreeType project used in font rendering. \li GPLv2, FreeType Project License \li
-
- \row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{HarfBuzz (harfbuzz)}{HarfBuzz} \li OpenType layout engine. \li BSD-style \li
\row \li \l{FreeType 2 (freetype) version 2.3.12}{FreeType 2}
\li Parts of FreeType project used in font rendering. \li GPLv2, FreeType Project License \li
@@ -154,43 +161,51 @@
\li Allows users to transfer information between and within applications. \li BSD-style \li
\row \li \l{ANGLE (angle)}{ANGLE}
\li Opensource project to map OpenGL ES API calls to DirectX API. \li BSD-style \li \l {Qt for Windows}
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,3} Qt Location
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Location
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{Poly2Tri}
\li Poly2Tri is a sweepline constrained Delaunay Polygon Triangulation Library. \li BSD-style \li
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,3} Qt Network
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Network
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{The Public Suffix List}
\li A list of all known public Internet suffixes. \li Mozilla Public License \li
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,3} Qt Multimedia
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Multimedia
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{FFTReal version 2.11}{FFTReal}
\li Fast Fourier transform of real-valued arrays. \li LGPL \li (Used in example code).
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,2} Qt SVG
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt SVG
\row \li \l{Qt SVG License Information}
\li Parts of code for arc handling in Qt SVG module. \li BSD-style \li Depends on Qt Gui, Qt Widgets
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,3} Qt Quick
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Quick
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{Easing Equations}
\li Easing Equations is a collection of swappable functions that add flavor to motion. \li BSD-style \li Depends on Qt QML, Qt Gui, Qt Network
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Quick Controls
+ \row \li \l {Native Style for Android} \li \li Apache License 2.0 \li \l {Qt for Android}
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,5} Qt Script
- \li \li \li (Provided for Qt 4 compatibility) \li
+ \row \li {1,6} Qt Script
+ \li \li \li \li (Provided for Qt 4 compatibility)
\row \li \l{V8 benchmark tests}
\li V8 benchmark tests used in Qt Script. \li BSD-style \li
@@ -199,10 +214,10 @@
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{JavaScriptCore}
- \li \li BSD-style \li
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \li \li LGPL v2 \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,6} Qt Test
+ \row \li {1,8} Qt Test
\row \li \l{Other Licenses Used in Qt#Testlib}{Testlib}
\li Parts of implementation of Qt Test library. \li BSD, MIT \li
@@ -214,14 +229,31 @@
\li \li BSD-style \li
\row \li \l{Callgrind}
\li A performance profiling tool. \li GPL v2 \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,2} Qt Print Support
- \li \li \li Depends on Qt Gui and Qt Widgets \li
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Print Support
+ \li \li \li \li Depends on Qt Gui and Qt Widgets
\row \li \l{Notes about PDF Licensing}{PDF Licensing}
\li Notes about PDF Licensing. \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Wayland
- \row \li {1,4} Qt WebKit
+ \row \li \l {Wayland Protocol} \li \li MIT \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt WebEngine
+
+ \row \li \l {Qt WebEngine Widgets#License Information}{License information}
+ \li \li LGPL v3 or\br LGPL v2.1 + Qt commercial license \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+
+ \row \li {1,6} Qt WebKit
\row \li \l{WebKit used by the QtWebKit module}
\li Parts of WebKit used by the QtWebKit module \li BSD-style \li Depends on Qt Gui, Qt Network, Qt SQL, Qt QML, and Qt Quick
@@ -229,38 +261,48 @@
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{WebCore (WebKit)}{WebCore}
\li A layout, rendering, and Document Object Model (DOM) library for HTML and SVG. \li LGPL, MIT, BSD-style \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,2} Qt Designer
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Designer
\row \li \l{Qt Designer License Information}
\li Implementation of the recursive shadow casting algorithm in Qt Designer. \li BSD (MIT) \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,3} Qt Creator
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt Creator
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{Botan version 1.8.8}{Botan}
\li A C++ crypto library used in Qt Creator. \li BSD \li
- \row \li \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,4} Qt Image Formats
+ \row \li {1,6} Qt Image Formats
\row \li {4,1} \b{Third-party Licenses}
\row \li \l{TIFF Software Distribution (libtiff) version 3.9.2}{TIFF}
\li libtiff is a set of C functions (a library) that support the manipulation of TIFF image files. \li BSD \li
\row \li \l{MNG Library (libmng) version 1.0.10}{MNG}
\li Support decoding and displaying of MNG format image files. \li BSD-style \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,2} Qt SQL
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt SQL
\row \li \l{SQLite (sqlite) version 3.7.17.0}{SQLite}
\li A C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. \li BSD-style \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,2} Qt XML Patterns
+ \row \li {1,4} Qt XML Patterns
\row \li \l {Bison Parser 2.3a}{Bison Parser}
\li Bison is a parser generator. \li GPL with exception \li Depends on Qt Network
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
- \row \li {1,8} Plugins
+ \row \li {1,10} Plugins
\row \li \l{JPEG Software (libjpeg) version 8c}{JPEG}
\li C software to implement JPEG image compression and decompression. \li BSD-style \li
@@ -276,7 +318,8 @@
\li A toolkit-neutral way of providing accessibility facilities in application. \li LGPL \li \l {Qt for Linux/X11}
\row \li \l{Third-Party Licenses Used in Qt#xkbcommon}{xkbcommon}
\li Keymap handling library for toolkits and window systems. \li BSD-style \li \l {Qt for Linux/X11}
-
+ \row \li \li \li \li
+ \row \li \li \li \li
\row \li {1,3} Qt Tools
@@ -299,7 +342,6 @@
\brief Information about other licenses used for Qt components and third-party code.
Qt contains some code that is not provided under the
- \l{GNU General Public License (GPL)},
\l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)} or the
\l{Qt Commercial License}, but rather under
specific licenses from the original authors.
@@ -317,6 +359,28 @@
\generatelist legalese
+ \section1 Native Style for Android
+
+ \legalese
+ Copyright (C) 2005 The Android Open Source Project
+
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+ \endlegalese
+
+ \list
+ \li \c {src/3rdparty/android/extract.h}
+ \endlist
+
\section1 QCrashHandler class
Copyright (c) 1998 by Bjorn Reese <breese@imada.ou.dk>
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