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/****************************************************************************
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** Copyright (C) 2018 The Qt Company Ltd.
** Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/
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/*!
    \page license-changes.html
    \title License Changes
    \brief Information about changes of licenses in Qt and Third Party Modules
    \ingroup licensing

    Changes in Qt and \l{Licenses Used in Qt}{Third Party Modules}
    released with Qt that are relevant to licensing.

    \section1 Qt 5.11

    \section2 Qt 3D Module

    \list
        \li The \l{Open Asset Import Library} got updated to upstream version
            4.1.0.
        \li Examples use some assets from \l{Substance Share} that are available
            under the \e {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0} license. This is now
            documented.
    \endlist


    \section2 Qt Core Module
    \list
        \li \e{Parts of QTemporaryFile} got removed from documentation.
            The corresponding code got removed already in Qt 5.10.0.

        \li The copy of the \l{The Public Suffix List} got updated on
            2018-01-04.

        \li The concluded license for the
            \l{Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)} changed to
            \e{Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)}.
            In Qt 5.10 documentation, the component was labelled as
            \e{Unicode CLDR (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository)}.

        \li The use of the \l{Unicode Character Database (UCD)} under the
            \e{Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)}.
            is now documented.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt D-Bus Module

    Qt D-Bus uses code from \l{libdbus-1 headers} that are available under the
    \e{Academic Free License v2.1, or GNU General Public License v2.0 or later}.
    This is now documented.

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \list
        \li \l{HarfBuzz-NG} got updated to upstream version 1.7.4.
        \li \l{LibJPEG-turbo} got updated to upstream version 1.5.3.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \list
        \li \l{TIFF Software Distribution (libtiff)} got updated to upstream
            version 4.0.9.
        \li \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to upstream version 0.6.1.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt Quick Controls 2 Module

    Use of \l{Shadow values from Angular Material} under \e{MIT License}
    in the Material Style is now documented.

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.23.1.

    \section2 Qt Test Module

    The concluded license of \l{Linux Performance Events} changed to
    \e{GNU General Public License v2.0 only with Linux Syscall Note}.

    \section2 Qt WebEngine Module

    \list
        \li \l{(Components of) Bazel} got added under the
            \e {Apache License 2.0}.
        \li \l{Breakpad, An open-source multi-platform crash reporting system}
            got added under a \e{New BSD, Apple PSL 2.0 and Apache 2.0} license.
        \li \l{BoringSSL} got updated.
        \li \l{CRC32C} got added under a \e{New BSD} license.
        \li \e{Error Prone} got removed.
        \li \l{Fiat-Crypto: Synthesizing Correct-by-Construction Code for
            Cryptographic Primitives} got added under a \e{MIT} license.
        \li \l{OpenVR SDK} got added under a \e{BSD 3-Clause} license.
        \li \l{Perfetto} got added under a \e{Apache 2} license.
        \li \e{The library to input, validate, and display addresses} got
            removed.
        \li \l{content_shell_fonts} got added under
            \e{SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE, GPL v2, Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright}.
        \li \e{libcxx} got removed.
        \li \e{libcxxabi} got removed.
        \li \e{libunwind} got removed.
        \li \e{libva} got removed.
        \li \e{libxslt} got added under a \e{MIT} license.
        \li \e{open-vcdiff} got removed.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt XML Patterns Module

    Use of \l{XML Schema}
    under \e{W3C Software Notice and Document License (2015-05-13)}
    is now documented.
*/