[Interest] Impact of QtWayland licensing on applications bundling OSS Qt?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 20 June 2022 16:24:43 PDT Mike Rochefort wrote:
> Looking at the source, I did a quick scan of the repository to see what
> was LGPL and GPL based. Your description of the situation was pretty
> spot on, Thiago, though there are two files in the client project that
> are GPL licensed. These files are new in Qt 6.3; they don't exist in any
> version of Qt prior (including 5.15) and were added in the following
> commit: d89c892
> 
> Scan results: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2353685

Looks like a mistake, probably simple copy & paste one. I've submitted a 
licence fix for these two files:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/417519

I don't own the copyright on them. Let's see what Qt Company says.

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