License Changes
Changes in Qt and Third Party Modules released with Qt that are relevant to licensing.
Qt 5.11.2
Qt Core Module
PCRE2 got updated to upstream version 10.31.
Qt GUI Module
Qt Location Module
The copyright information and description of Clipper Polygon Clipping Library got updated.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.24.0.
Qt WebEngine Module
- Chromium received backported security fixes from Chromium up to version 68.0.3440.75.
- The WebEngine StyleSheet Browser Example, WebEngine Widgets Simple Browser Example, WebEngine Quick Nano Browser, and WebEngine Cookie Browser Example use images from the Tango Icon Library. This is now documented.
- Marked (WebEngine RecipeBrowser example) got updated to upstream version 0.4.0.
Qt 5.11.1
Qt 3D Module
The use of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Photojournal in the module is actually limited to the planets-qml example. The attribution has therefore been removed from the module's documentation.
Qt Documentation
Use of the Titillium Web Font in the Coffee demo is now documented.
Qt Image Formats
WebP (libwebp) got updated to version 1.0.0.
Qt 5.11.0
Qt 3D Module
- The Open Asset Import Library got updated to upstream version 4.1.0.
- Examples use some assets from Substance Share that are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. This is now documented.
Qt Core Module
- Parts of QTemporaryFile got removed from documentation. The corresponding code got removed already in Qt 5.10.0.
- The copy of the The Public Suffix List got updated on 2018-01-04.
- The concluded license for the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) changed to Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016). In Qt 5.10
documentation, the component was labelled as Unicode CLDR (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository).
- The use of the Unicode Character Database (UCD) under the Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016). is now documented.
Qt D-Bus Module
Qt D-Bus uses code from libdbus-1 headers that are available under the Academic Free License v2.1, or GNU General Public License v2.0 or
later. This is now documented.
Qt GUI Module
Qt Image Formats
Qt Quick Controls 2 Module
Use of Shadow values from Angular Material under MIT License in the Material Style is now documented.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.23.1.
Qt Test Module
The concluded license of Linux Performance Events changed to GNU General Public License v2.0 only with Linux Syscall Note.
Qt WebEngine Module
- (Components of) Bazel got added under the Apache License 2.0.
- Breakpad, An open-source multi-platform crash reporting system got added under a New BSD, Apple PSL 2.0 and Apache 2.0 license.
- BoringSSL got updated.
- CRC32C got added under a New BSD license.
- Error Prone got removed.
- Fiat-Crypto: Synthesizing Correct-by-Construction Code for Cryptographic Primitives got added under a MIT license.
- OpenVR SDK got added under a BSD 3-Clause license.
- Perfetto got added under a Apache 2 license.
- The library to input, validate, and display addresses got removed.
- content_shell_fonts got added under SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE, GPL v2, Bitstream Vera Fonts Copyright.
- libcxx got removed.
- libcxxabi got removed.
- libunwind got removed.
- libva got removed.
- libxslt got added under a MIT license.
- open-vcdiff got removed.
Qt XML Patterns Module
Use of XML Schema under W3C Software Notice and Document License (2015-05-13) is now documented.
