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

Frank Meerkötter frank.meerkoetter at basyskom.com
Tue Jan 23 09:19:48 CET 2024


Thank you for the clarification

On 22.01.24 19:53, Elias Steurer via Development wrote:
> 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
>>
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