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diff --git a/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc b/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..936ceff97 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/core/doc/src/qwebengine-licensing.qdoc @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +// 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 \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 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. + +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 +\ingroup qtwebengine-licensing +\title Chromium License +\brief BSD + +The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under a BSD license: + +\quotefile ../../../3rdparty/chromium/LICENSE +*/ |