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authorKai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io>2016-06-08 12:58:42 +0200
committerJani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>2016-06-08 11:28:15 +0000
commit92faf5240f564fd851c95b5ae635bbe07f8c0862 (patch)
tree22da80c77654c26e5b9ce8315cab78779c8736b8
parent8acd1bb2d802296a37b6394ffe4e7adc5112db2b (diff)
Mention license change in 5.7.0 changelog.v5.7.0
Change-Id: Idecf73d82c05e3426aef3b961ea7a568ed43637e Task-number: QTBUG-53913 Reviewed-by: Sami Makkonen <sami.makkonen@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>
-rw-r--r--dist/changes-5.7.022
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/dist/changes-5.7.0 b/dist/changes-5.7.0
index bcbf282..5068bc6 100644
--- a/dist/changes-5.7.0
+++ b/dist/changes-5.7.0
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
Qt 5.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
-over the 5.6.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation
-included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online:
+over the 5.6.x series. Also, there is a change in the licensing terms.
+For more details, refer to the online documentation included in this
+distribution. The documentation is also available online:
- http://doc.qt.io
+ http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html
The Qt version 5.7 series is binary compatible with the 5.6.x series.
Applications compiled for 5.6 will continue to run with 5.7.
@@ -16,5 +17,20 @@ Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more
information about a particular change.
****************************************************************************
+* Important License Changes *
+****************************************************************************
+
+ This module is no longer available under LGPLv2.1. The libraries are
+ now available under the following licenses:
+ * Commercial License
+ * GNU General Public License v2.0 (LICENSE.GPL2) and later
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LICENSE.LGPL3)
+
+ The tools are now available under the following licenses:
+ * Commercial License
+ * GNU General Public License 3.0 (LICENSE.GPL3) with exceptions
+ described in The Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0 (LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT)
+
+****************************************************************************
* General *
****************************************************************************