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author | Kai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io> | 2018-04-12 15:58:18 +0200 |
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committer | Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io> | 2018-04-24 17:58:07 +0000 |
commit | 83500555936ce593ccd02490979200b8bf24aa76 (patch) | |
tree | 4bfc2e91e847bdc013043e5cb9148d76f4f5ab7e | |
parent | 5aab2cac19ef2fbb241ca0bdc7c07388858ca0e1 (diff) | |
download | qtdoc-83500555936ce593ccd02490979200b8bf24aa76.tar.gz |
Document license changes in Qt 5.11
This page lists changes in the Qt license itself,
but also changes in the third-party components we incorporate. The idea
is that customers can clear minor releases of Qt by just looking at
the delta.
Change-Id: I87b7667f5ace1c70524c8af42d1d69f22765c08a
Reviewed-by: Topi Reiniƶ <topi.reinio@qt.io>
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/legal/licensechanges.qdoc | 98 |
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diff --git a/doc/src/legal/licensechanges.qdoc b/doc/src/legal/licensechanges.qdoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9caa712d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/legal/licensechanges.qdoc @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Copyright (C) 2018 The Qt Company Ltd. +** Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/ +** +** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. +** +** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$ +** Commercial License Usage +** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in +** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the +** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in +** a written agreement between you and The Qt Company. For licensing terms +** and conditions see https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions. For further +** information use the contact form at https://www.qt.io/contact-us. +** +** GNU Free Documentation License Usage +** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Free +** Documentation License version 1.3 as published by the Free Software +** Foundation and appearing in the file included in the packaging of +** this file. Please review the following information to ensure +** the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 requirements +** will be met: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html. +** $QT_END_LICENSE$ +** +****************************************************************************/ + +/*! + \page license-changes.html + \title License Changes + \brief Information about changes of licenses in Qt and Third Party Modules + \ingroup licensing + + Changes in Qt and \l{Licenses Used in Qt}{Third Party Modules} + released with Qt that are relevant to licensing. + + \section1 Qt 5.11 + + \section2 Qt Core Module + \list + \li \e{Parts of QTemporaryFile} got removed from documentation. + The corresponding code got removed already in Qt 5.10.0. + + \li The copy of the \l{The Public Suffix List} got updated on + 2018-01-04. + + \li The concluded license for the + \l{Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)} changed to + \e{Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)}. + In Qt 5.10 documentation, the component was labelled as + \e{Unicode CLDR (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository)}. + + \li The use of the \l{Unicode Character Database (UCD)} under the + \e{Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)}. + is now documented. + \endlist + + \section2 Qt D-Bus Module + + Qt D-Bus uses code from \l{libdbus-1 headers} that are available under the + \e{Academic Free License v2.1, or GNU General Public License v2.0 or later}. + This is now documented. + + \section2 Qt GUI Module + + \list + \li \l{HarfBuzz-NG} got updated to upstream version 1.7.4. + \li \l{LibJPEG-turbo} got updated to upstream version 1.5.3. + \endlist + + \section2 Qt Image Formats + + \list + \li \l{TIFF Software Distribution (libtiff)} got updated to upstream + version 4.0.9. + \li \l{WebP (libwebp)} got updated to upstream version 0.6.1. + \endlist + + \section2 Qt Quick Controls 2 Module + + Use of \l{Shadow values from Angular Material} under MIT License + in the Material Style is now documented. + + \section2 Qt SQL Module + + \l{SQLite} got updated to version 3.22.0. + + \section2 Qt Test Module + + The License of \l{Linux Performance Events} got updated to say + \e{GNU General Public License v2.0 only with Linux Syscall Note}. + + \section2 Qt XML Patterns Module + + Use of \l{XML Schema} + under \e{W3C Software Notice and Document License (2015-05-13)} + is now documented. +*/ |