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/****************************************************************************
**
** Copyright (C) 2018 The Qt Company Ltd.
** Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/
**
** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
**
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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 5.13.2

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.29.0.

    \section1 Qt 5.13.1

    \section2 Qt Core Module

    \l{Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)} got updated to
            upstream version v35.1

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to upstream version 1.0.3.

    \section1 Qt 5.13.0

    \section2 Qt Core Module

    \list
        \li The copy of the \l{The Public Suffix List} got updated on 2019-02-20.
        The upstream license is now MPL 2.0.
        \li \l{PCRE2} got updated to upstream version 10.33.
        \li \l{PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler} got updated to upstream version 10.33.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.28.0.

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \list
        \li \l{LibJPEG-turbo} got updated to upstream version 2.0.2.
        \li \l{LibPNG} got updated to upstream version 1.6.37.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt DBUS Module

    The \l{libdus-1 headers} got updated to upstream version 1.12.12.

    \section2 Qt Wayland

    \list
        \li The fullscreen-shell-unstable-v1 version 1 was added under the MIT
        License.
        \li The linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1 protocol version 3 was added under the
        MIT License.
        \li The wayland protocol got updated to version 1.16.0.
        \li The wl-scaler protocol version 2 was added under the MIT License.
        \li The wp-viewporter protocol version 1 was added under the MIT
        License.
    \endlist

    \section1 Qt 5.12.6

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.29.0.

    \section1 Qt 5.12.5

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    Use of \l{Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts} under the \e{BSD-3-Clause}
    license is now documented.

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to upstream version 1.0.3.

    \section1 Qt 5.12.4

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \l{LibPNG} got updated to upstream version 1.6.37.

    \section2 Qt Core Module

    \list
        \li \l{PCRE2} got updated to upstream version 10.33
        \li \l{PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler} got updated to
            upstream version 10.33
        \li \l{Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)} got updated to
            upstream version v35.1
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.28.0.

    \section1 Qt 5.12.3

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    The license of \l{Wintab API} was now classified as 'Custom' instead of
    'Public Domain'.

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.27.1.

    \section1 Qt 5.12.2

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \list
        \li \l{Freetype 2} got updated to upstream version 2.9.1.
        \li \l{LibPNG} got updated to upstream version 1.6.36. libpng License 2
        added at same time.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to upstream version 1.0.2.

    \section1 Qt 5.12.1

    \section2 Qt Core Module

    \list
        \li The version information for \l{FreeBSD} got updated.
        \li The version information for \l{Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-3 - Keccak} got updated.
        \li \l{UCD} got updated to upstream version 20.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \l{xkbcommon} was removed from 3rd party sources and we are not bundling that library any more.

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \list
        \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to upstream version 1.0.1.
        \l{libtiff} got updated to upstream version 4.0.10.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.26.0.

    \section2 Qt Virtual Keyboard Module

    The version information for \l{Lipi Toolkit} got updated.

    \section2 Qt Wayland Compositor Module

    The usage of \l{Wayland EGLStream Controller Protocol} under MIT license is now documented.

    \section1 Qt 5.12.0

    \section2 Qt 3D Module

    Use of \l{Miramar Skybox Textures} is now documented.

    \section2 Qt Core Module

    \list
        \li \l{Efficient Binary-Decimal and Decimal-Binary Conversion Routines for IEEE Doubles}
            got updated to upstream version 3.1.1.
        \li \l{PCRE2} got updated to upstream version 10.32.
        \li Use of \l{PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler} under the
            \e{BSD 2-clause "Simplified"} license is now documented.
        \li \l{Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-3 - brg_endian} got updated to version
            https://github.com/BrianGladman/sha/ commit 4b9e13ead2c5b5e41ca27c65de4dd69ae0bac228.
            License got updated to \e{BSD 2-clause "Simplified"} license.
        \li Use of \l{TinyCBOR} under the \e{MIT} license is now documented.
        \li \l{Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)} got updated to
            upstream version v34.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \list
        \li The version information for \l{Freetype 2} got updated.
        \li The Qt usage documentation for \l{HarfBuzz} got updated.
        \li The Qt usage documentation for \l{HarfBuzz-NG} got updated.
        \li The version information for \l{IAccessible2 IDL Specification} got updated.
        \li \l{LibJPEG-turbo} got updated to upstream version 2.0.0.
        \li \l{LibPNG} got updated to upstream version 1.6.35.
        \li Use of \l{Bitstream Vera Font} under the \e{Bitstream Vera Font}
            license is now documented.
        \li \l{DejaVu Fonts} got updated to upstream version 2.37 and their use
            under the \e{Bitstream DejaVu Font} license is now documented.
        \li Use of \l{WebGradients} under the \e{MIT} license is now documented.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt DBUS Module

    \l{libdus-1 headers} got updated to upstream version 1.12.

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \list
        \li \e{JasPer} got removed.
        \li \e{MNG reference library} got removed.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt Location Module

    \list
        \li Use of \l{Tango Weather Icon Pack by Darkobra} is now documented.
        \li Use of \l{Tango Icons} is now documented.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt Test Module

    \l{Valgrind} got updated to upstream version 3.14.0.

    \section2 Qt Wayland Compositor Module

    \list
        \li Use of \l{Wayland xdg-decoration Protocol} under the \e{MIT} license
            is now documented.
        \li Use of \l{Wayland XDG Output Protocol} under the \e{MIT} license is
            now documented.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt WebEngine Module

    \l Chromium and third-party components bundled with it were updated to
    version 69.0.3497.

    \section1 Qt 5.11.2

    \section2 Qt Core Module

    \l{PCRE2} got updated to upstream version 10.31.

    \section2 Qt GUI Module

    \list
        \li The copyright information for \l{HarfBuzz} got updated.
        \li The copyright information for
            \l{Anti-aliasing rasterizer from FreeType 2} got updated.
    \endlist

    \section2 Qt Location Module

    The copyright information and description of
    \l{Clipper Polygon Clipping Library} got updated.

    \section2 Qt SQL Module

    \l{SQLite} got updated to upstream version 3.24.0.

    \section2 Qt WebEngine Module

    \list
        \li Chromium received backported security fixes from Chromium up to version
            68.0.3440.75.
        \li The \l{WebEngine StyleSheet Browser Example}, \l{WebEngine Widgets Simple Browser Example},
            \l{WebEngine Quick Nano Browser}, and \l{WebEngine Cookie Browser Example}
            use images from the Tango Icon Library. This is now documented.
        \li \l{Marked (WebEngine RecipeBrowser example)} got updated to upstream
            version 0.4.0.
    \endlist

    \section1 Qt 5.11.1

    \section2 Qt 3D Module

    The use of the \e{Jet Propulsion Laboratory Photojournal} in
    the module is actually limited to the planets-qml example. The attribution
    has therefore been removed from the module's documentation.

    \section2 Qt Documentation

    Use of the \l{Titillium Web Font} in the Coffee demo is now documented.

    \section2 Qt Image Formats

    \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to version 1.0.0.

    \section1 Qt 5.11.0

    \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 \e{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.
*/