[Development] Licensing of WinRT and Windows Embedded in Qt 5.5

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Apr 29 17:42:08 CEST 2015


On Wednesday 29 April 2015 10:00:30 Turunen Tuukka wrote:
> The Qt Company has decided that the license of WinRT port of Qt will be
> LGPLv3 / GPLv2+ / Commercial in Qt 5.5. Microsoft is soon to release
> Windows 10, and Qt 5.5.x is planned to bring full support for it. We prefer
> LGPLv3 and therefore we want to adjust the licensing now and discontinue
> the LGPLv2.1 option of Qt for WinRT. There are no changes to the licensing
> of Win32 port of Qt. The terms and conditions of the Windows Store are
> compatible with the new licensing options.

Hi Tuukka

How is that accomplished? Are you licensing a few files inside QtCore, QtGui 
and QtWidgets as LGPLv3/GPLv2+/Commercial? Or is it just the QPA plugin for 
WinRT/WinCE?

I just want to know which files are to have the different licence header.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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