[Development] Status of Qt3D in 5.5

[Sze Howe Koh]

On 10 February 2015 at 00:55, Sean Harmer <sean.harmer at kdab.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 09 Feb 2015 08:44:34 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Monday 09 February 2015 16:15:42 Sean Harmer wrote:
> > > Trying to come up with a generic way to manage all this whilst making good
> > > use  of n cores is a good fit for ThreadWeaver or Intel TBB or something
> > > else along the same lines.
> >
> > Wouldn't TBB be an acceptable dependency?
>
> TBB has no LGPL option iirc, only commercial and GPL. Otherwise I'd be more
> than happy to use TBB. I'm happy to be proven wrong of course.

We explored this some time ago, and found some legal uncertainties.
Lars came to the conclusion that it can't be incorporated directly
into Qt, except maybe as an add-on:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/10232


Regards,
Sze-Howe