[Development] Licensing of qtbase

[Felix Crazzolara]

Thank you very much for your explanations Allan and Florian.

Cheers,

Felix

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 13:32, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>
wrote:

> On Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2022 12:14:27 CEST Felix Crazzolara wrote:
> > Dear everyone,
> >
> > I would like to use Qt for a personal project. In my project, I use a
> > relatively small part of Qt and I think that the components of QtBase
> here
> > https://github.com/qt/qtbase
> > suffice for my application.
> >
> > I read about the Qt licensing model on the official website. What
> surprised
> > me now to see, is that there are quite a few licenses in the LICENSES
> > folder in the repository referred to above. Among them is for example an
> > MIT license.
> >
> > How can I understand this? Is the QtBase component of Qt itself licensed
> > with an MIT license? Can I choose which license in the LICENSES folder to
> > use if I restrict myself to QtBase?
> >
> No, you can only choose between LGPLv3, GPLv2 or commercial, you have to
> be
> compatible with one of those. The MIT license is a license for components
> Qt
> itself uses, and shouldn't affect you.
>
> Best regards
> Allan
>
>
>
>
>
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