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authorFriedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io>2016-06-08 10:46:22 +0200
committerJani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>2016-06-08 10:58:31 +0000
commit9bec22cb68aeff2b72186539e64ceb97ebaf49e9 (patch)
tree8db3bd838eca2bc1922663db87df9ee166e6d92e
parente2f08aaacb571c1287217b09acf66518ff924dc4 (diff)
Mention license change in 5.7.0 changelog.v5.7.0
Task-number: QTBUG-53913 Change-Id: I573f5efb7864ecb23e3c727c6c795c9651b71b83 Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@theqtcompany.com> Reviewed-by: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>
-rw-r--r--dist/changes-5.7.020
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/dist/changes-5.7.0 b/dist/changes-5.7.0
index 55ad36e..0305436 100644
--- a/dist/changes-5.7.0
+++ b/dist/changes-5.7.0
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
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/qt-5/index.html
@@ -16,6 +17,21 @@ 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 not available under LGPLv2.1 anymore. 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)
+
+****************************************************************************
* Library *
****************************************************************************