[Development] Switching to SPDX license expressions

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue May 24 00:11:36 CEST 2022


On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 9:24 AM Jörg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann at qt.io> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just a heads-up, because we never announced this on this mailing list:
> we're in the process of switching Qt sources from traditional license
> headers to much more concise SPDX license expressions.
>
> Longer story here: https://www.qt.io/blog/switching-to-spdx
>
> So far, the switch has been completed for qtbase and qttools.
> More to follow.

Sounds good! We did it in KDE Frameworks a couple of years ago and
it's worked good so far, it makes certain things much easier to work
with as there's tooling for it.

Best,
Aleix


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