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authorJani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>2016-05-24 13:27:56 +0300
committerJani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>2016-06-08 18:31:47 +0000
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Mention license change in 5.7.0 changelog.v5.7.0
Change-Id: Ia4cd6851038db8c7b983f6f270381a2bce6a3312 Task-number: QTBUG-53913 Reviewed-by: Sami Makkonen <sami.makkonen@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>
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+Qt 5.7 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes
+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/qt-5.7
+
+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.
+
+Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers
+corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker:
+
+ http://bugreports.qt.io/
+
+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 *
+****************************************************************************
+ - This release contains only minor improvements.