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baldfat on Jan 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Qt Licensing Changes

> The purpose here has been to bring the licensing of Qt more in line with the philosophy of the Free Software movement.

> In line with this, the new contract with KDE now removes LGPLv2.1 as a required license for the open source version. Instead, it now requires LGPLv3

> This means that all parts of Qt for Application Development can be used under the GPLv3.

Looks like things have just moved to LPLV3 and is compatible with GPLV3. Good stuff here.

MegaDeKay on Jan 13, 2016 [–]

It is better than that. They've made some modules available to open source users that were only available to their commercial customers before.

  Qt Charts
  Qt Data Visualization
  Qt Virtual Keyboard
  QML Profiler
  Clang static analyzer
  Qt Test Integration
  Qt Quick 2D renderer

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