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

d3fault d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 15:42:27 CEST 2019


On 10/16/19, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As it turned out, there was some miscommunication that happened regarding
> the re-licensing of Qt PDF, and not all contributors were on board regarding
> the license change. That means we’re not changing the modules license and
> won’t be adding it to become a supported part of Qt until this has been
> sorted out.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>

This is excellent news. I hope those contributors continue to resist
the change to GPLv3. As a developer who releases his code under an
LGPLv3-like license, all of Qt's GPLv3/Commercial modules are useless
to me.

d3fault


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