[Development] Acceptable CC licenses for Qt

Lars Knoll Lars.Knoll at qt.io
Wed May 11 10:04:36 CEST 2016


On 11/05/16 00:59, "Development on behalf of Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi! I would like to know what are the acceptable Creative Common licenses for 
>Qt.
>
>The reason why I'm asking is because qt3d's examples/qt3d/audio-visualizer-
>qml/music/tiltshifted_lost_neon_sun.mp3 is under the CC-BY-ND license, which 
>is undistributable by Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives.

It's the -ND variants that cause issues, right? In that case, I'd say we should avoid those if possible.
>
>Qt 3D maintainers: would you accept a different licensed file for this 
>example?

Would be good if you can find something different.

In general: If you add 3rd party content to Qt (not only code), please check with me.

Cheers,
Lars



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