[Development] Question about the licensing of the Protobuf-Module

[Elias Steurer]

This was (sadly) a bug, see comments: 
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-117783

Cheers 👋,

Eli

On 1/22/2024 10:29 AM, Frank Meerkötter wrote:
> I am looking for a clarification on the licensing of the Protobuf-Module.
>
> The code in https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtgrpc.git/tree/src/protobuf 
> has // SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR 
> LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only
>
> While the code in 
> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtgrpc.git/tree/src/protobufqttypes/protobufqtcoretypes 
> has // SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR 
> GPL-3.0-only WITH Qt-GPL-exception-1.0
>
> Is this intentional?
>
> Can I - wearing a LGPL3-hat - use the protobuf module?
>
> Thank you,
> Frank
>