[Development] Adding Microsoft-licensed library in Qt Multimedia

[Knoll Lars]

On 16/09/15 19:11, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday 16 September 2015 15:59:25 Lopes Yoann wrote:
>> >> iii. Distribution Restrictions.  You may not
>> >> ·   modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so
>> >> that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License.  An
>>Excluded
>> >> License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or
>> >> distribution, that ·   the code be disclosed or distributed in source
>> >> code form; or
>> >> ·   others have the right to modify it.
>> >>
>> >> 
>> >>
>> > ah, the good old ms. i think the express purpose of that clause is to
>> > forbid usage in (l)gpl code, which means we would have to distribute
>>at
>> > least that plugin under BSD or proprietary only.
>> 
>> You might be right… in that case this is probably a no-go.
>
>It is.
>
>And even if it weren't for this reason, the licence of this code is not
>OSI-
>approved and not compliant with the DFSG, so please don't import it into
>Qt.

Yes, unfortunately we can’t use any of this code.

Cheers,
Lars