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

David M. Cotter dave at kjams.com
Thu Oct 17 19:34:46 CEST 2019


+1

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 6:42 AM, d3fault <d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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