[Development] Acceptable CC licenses for Qt

[Simon Hausmann]

I have the strong feeling that perhaps there's an alternate solution, given that the file in question was probably produced by Pasi :)


Simon
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From: Development <development-bounces+simon.hausmann=qt.io at qt-project.org> on behalf of Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll at qt.io>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 10:04:36 AM
To: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer; development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Acceptable CC licenses for Qt

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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