[Development] Change in open-source licensing of Qt Wayland Compositor, Qt Application Manager and Qt PDF

[Konstantin Tokarev]

11.10.2019, 04:09, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
> I wrote:
>>  Tuukka Turunen wrote:
>>>  Qt PDF is a new module, which has not been released earlier despite the
>>>  pre-release code being available. Changing the license to GPLv3 will
>>>  allow The Qt Company to support the module going forward.
>>
>>  But this license change makes the module effectively useless for the
>>  community because we already have a GPLv3-licensed implementation,
>>  Poppler-Qt. The more liberal license was the only added value of PDFium.
>
> PS: In addition, Qt PDF is de facto not a new module, but was added to the
> existing LGPL-licensed QtWebEngine module (because it uses the PDFium from
> QtWebEngine), so you will be shipping one tarball with differently licensed
> parts. This will be really confusing!

FWIW, that tarball already contains code under various licenses (BSD, LGPL 2.1, LGPL 3/GPL 2/Commercial, Apache 2.0, MIT, MPL 2, etc.)


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Regards,
Konstantin