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diff --git a/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc b/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc index f6a0a6c32..936ceff97 100644 --- a/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc +++ b/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc @@ -1,48 +1,58 @@ -/**************************************************************************** -** -** Copyright (C) 2017 The Qt Company Ltd. -** Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/ -** -** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. -** -** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$ -** Commercial License Usage -** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in -** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the -** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in -** a written agreement between you and The Qt Company. For licensing terms -** and conditions see https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions. For further -** information use the contact form at https://www.qt.io/contact-us. -** -** GNU Free Documentation License Usage -** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Free -** Documentation License version 1.3 as published by the Free Software -** Foundation and appearing in the file included in the packaging of -** this file. Please review the following information to ensure -** the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 requirements -** will be met: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html. -** $QT_END_LICENSE$ -** -****************************************************************************/ +// Copyright (C) 2017 The Qt Company Ltd. +// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only /*! \group qtwebengine-licensing \title Qt WebEngine Licensing -The Qt specific parts of the \QWE module are dual-licensed -under Commercial and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3). -In addition, the module contains code licensed under LGPLv2. +The \QWE module uses Chromium to provide most of its +functionality. During the build process, Chromium becomes +a part of the \l{Qt WebEngine Core} library. +Therefore, when distributing \QWE, users need to comply +to both the licenses of the \QWE part as developed under +the Qt Project, as well as the licenses that are part of +Chromium. -The module includes a snapshot of Chromium. As such, users need to -respect the licenses of Chromium, and third-party code included in -Chromium. The arguably most restrictive license to be respected by -all users is LGPLv2.1. +The Qt specific parts of the \QWE module are available under +commercial licenses from The Qt Company. Alternatively, +they are available under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, +or GNU General Public License v3.0, or +GNU General Public License v2.0. -Third party licenses included in the sources are: +The Chromium part contains code available under various +licenses, with the most restrictive license being the +\e{GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1} (LGPL 2.1). +For a full list, see \l{Third-Party Licenses} below. + +\section1 Complying with LGPL 2.1 + +The Qt Company allows commercial customers to +distribute the source code of the \QWE module alongside the +\QWE binaries, and allows recipients to customize and build +\QWE from sources. This includes building and using +such a modified \QWE with an application or system using +an otherwise commercially licensed Qt. + +The Qt Company also keeps the Qt specific parts of the \QWE +module available under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, +or the GNU General Public License v3.0, or +the GNU General Public License v2.0, even if WebEngine is released +as part of a commercial-only Long-Term Support release (LTS, see +also \l{Long-Term Support releases}). + +\section1 Third-Party Licenses + +Third party licenses included in the sources as part of Chromium +are found below. + +\note Any GPL licenses listed below are only used to access Linux system +resources. The \QWE libraries and plugins does not link to nor distribute +GPL binary code, and it does not affect users of \QWE. */ /*! -\page qtwebengine-3rdparty-chromium-global.html attribution +\page qtwebengine-3rdparty-chromium-global.html +\attribution \ingroup qtwebengine-licensing \title Chromium License \brief BSD |