License Changes
Changes in Qt and Third Party Modules released with Qt that are relevant to licensing.
Qt 5.15.1
Qt Core Module
- PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler got updated to upstream version 10.35.
Qt GUI Module
- Usage of ANGLE: Khronos Headers under MIT License is now documented.
- LibJPEG-turbo got updated to upstream version 2.0.5.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.32.3.
Qt 5.15.0
Qt 3D Module
- imgui version v1.66b was added under MIT License.
Qt Core Module
- UCD got updated to upstream revision 26.
- The copy of the The Public Suffix List got updated on 2020-03-13.
Qt DBUS Module
libdus-1 headers got updated to upstream version 1.13.12
Qt GUI Module
- LibJPEG-turbo got updated to upstream version 2.0.4.
- Usage of XCB-XInput under MIT License is now documented.
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WebP (libwebp) got updated to upstream version 1.1.0.
Qt Location Module
- Use of geosimplify.js is now documented.
Qt Quick3D Module
- Usage of Open Asset Import Library got updated to upstream version 5.0.1.
Qt Wayland Compositor
- Wayland Tablet Protocol unstable v2, version 1 was added under the MIT License.
- Wayland xdg-decoration Protocol was updated to unstable v1, version 2
- Wayland XDG Shell Protocol was updated to version 1.18
- Wayland Text Input Protocol was updated to unstable version v2
- Wayland Linux Dmabuf Unstable V1 Protocol was updated to unstable v1, version 3
- Wayland EGLStream Controller Protocol was updated to version 1.1.1
Qt WebEngine Module
- Updated Chromium to 80.0.3987
Qt 5.14.2
Qt GUI Module
MD4C got updated to upstream version 0.4.3.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.31.1.
Qt 5.14.1
Qt Core Module
- PCRE2 got updated to upstream version 10.34.
- PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler got updated to upstream version 10.34.
Qt QML Module
LLVM: ADT was removed from 3rd party sources and we are not bundling that library anymore.
Qt 5.14.0
Qt Core Module
- Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) got updated to upstream version v36.
- Efficient Binary-Decimal and Decimal-Binary Conversion Routines for IEEE Doubles got updated to upstream version 3.1.5.
- The copy of the The Public Suffix List got updated on 2019-10-23.
Qt GUI Module
- Freetype 2 got updated to upstream version 2.10.1.
- LibJPEG-turbo got updated to upstream version 2.0.3.
- MD4C version 0.3.4 was added under MIT License.
- Vulkan Memory Allocator version 2.2.0 was added under MIT License.
Qt Image Formats
libtiff got updated to upstream version 4.1.0.
Qt QML Module
LLVM: ADT was added under University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.30.1.
Qt Wayland Compositor
The compositor module is no longer available under the GPLv2 and LGPLv3 licenses, but is still available under GPLv3 and commercial licenses.
- The xdg-output-unstable-v1 protocol version 2 was added under the MIT License.
- The idle-inhibit-unstable-v1 protocol version 1 was added under the MIT License.
Qt Wayland QPA plugin
- The primary-selection-unstable-v1 protocol version 1 was added under the MIT License.
Qt WebEngine Module
- Updated Chromium to 77.0.3865
Qt 5.13.2
Qt GUI Module
- X Server helper was added under X11 License and Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer license.
- Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts version 1.7 was added under BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.29.0.
Qt 5.13.1
Qt Core Module
Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) got updated to upstream version v35.1
Qt Image Formats
WebP (libwebp) got updated to upstream version 1.0.3.
Qt 5.13.0
Qt Core Module
- The copy of the The Public Suffix List got updated on 2019-02-20. The upstream license is now MPL 2.0.
- PCRE2 got updated to upstream version 10.33.
- PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler got updated to upstream version 10.33.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.28.0.
Qt GUI Module
- LibJPEG-turbo got updated to upstream version 2.0.2.
- LibPNG got updated to upstream version 1.6.37.
Qt DBUS Module
The libdus-1 headers got updated to upstream version 1.12.12.
Qt Wayland
- The fullscreen-shell-unstable-v1 version 1 was added under the MIT License.
- The linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1 protocol version 3 was added under the MIT License.
- The wayland protocol got updated to version 1.16.0.
- The wl-scaler protocol version 2 was added under the MIT License.
- The wp-viewporter protocol version 1 was added under the MIT License.
Qt 5.12.9
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.32.1.
Qt 5.12.6
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.29.0.
Qt 5.12.5
Qt GUI Module
Use of Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts under the BSD-3-Clause license is now documented.
Qt Image Formats
WebP (libwebp) got updated to upstream version 1.0.3.
Qt 5.12.4
Qt GUI Module
LibPNG got updated to upstream version 1.6.37.
Qt Core Module
- PCRE2 got updated to upstream version 10.33
- PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler got updated to upstream version 10.33
- Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) got updated to upstream version v35.1
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.28.0.
Qt 5.12.3
Qt GUI Module
The license of Wintab API was now classified as 'Custom' instead of 'Public Domain'.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.27.1.
Qt 5.12.2
Qt GUI Module
- Freetype 2 got updated to upstream version 2.9.1.
- LibPNG got updated to upstream version 1.6.36. libpng License 2 added at same time.
Qt Image Formats
WebP (libwebp) got updated to upstream version 1.0.2.
Qt 5.12.1
Qt Core Module
- The version information for FreeBSD got updated.
- The version information for Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-3 - Keccak got updated.
- UCD got updated to upstream version 20.
Qt GUI Module
xkbcommon was removed from 3rd party sources and we are not bundling that library any more.
Qt Image Formats
WebP (libwebp) got updated to upstream version 1.0.1. libtiff got updated to upstream version 4.0.10.
Qt SQL Module
SQLite got updated to upstream version 3.26.0.
Qt Virtual Keyboard Module
The version information for Lipi Toolkit got updated.
Qt Wayland Compositor Module
The usage of Wayland EGLStream Controller Protocol under MIT license is now documented.
Qt 5.12.0
Qt 3D Module
Use of Miramar Skybox Textures is now documented.
Qt Core Module
- Efficient Binary-Decimal and Decimal-Binary Conversion Routines for IEEE Doubles got updated to upstream version 3.1.1.
- PCRE2 got updated to upstream version 10.32.
- Use of PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler under the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license is now documented.
- Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-3 - brg_endian got updated to version https://github.com/BrianGladman/sha/ commit 4b9e13ead2c5b5e41ca27c65de4dd69ae0bac228. License got updated to BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license.
- Use of TinyCBOR under the MIT license is now documented.
- Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) got updated to upstream version v34.
Qt GUI Module
- The version information for Freetype 2 got updated.
- The Qt usage documentation for HarfBuzz got updated.
- The Qt usage documentation for HarfBuzz-NG got updated.
- The version information for IAccessible2 IDL Specification got updated.
- LibJPEG-turbo got updated to upstream version 2.0.0.
- LibPNG got updated to upstream version 1.6.35.
- Use of Bitstream Vera Font under the vera_font{Bitstream Vera Font} license is now documented.
- DejaVu Fonts got updated to upstream version 2.37 and their use under the Bitstream DejaVu Font license is now documented.
- Use of WebGradients under the MIT license is now documented.
Qt DBUS Module
libdus-1 headers got updated to upstream version 1.12.
Qt Image Formats
- JasPer got removed.
- MNG reference library got removed.
Qt Location Module
- Use of Tango Weather Icon Pack by Darkobra is now documented.
- Use of Tango Icons is now documented.
Qt Test Module
Valgrind got updated to upstream version 3.14.0.
Qt Wayland Compositor Module
- Use of Wayland xdg-decoration Protocol under the MIT license is now documented.
- Use of Wayland XDG Output Protocol under the MIT license is now documented.
Qt WebEngine Module
Chromium and third-party components bundled with it were updated to version 69.0.3497.
Qt 5.11.2
Qt Core Module
PCRE2 got updated to upstream version 10.31.
Qt GUI Module
- The copyright information for HarfBuzz got updated.
- The copyright information for Anti-aliasing rasterizer from FreeType 2 got updated.
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 nasa-jpl{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
- HarfBuzz-NG got updated to upstream version 1.7.4.
- LibJPEG-turbo got updated to upstream version 1.5.3.
Qt Image Formats
- TIFF Software Distribution (libtiff) got updated to upstream version 4.0.9.
- WebP (libwebp) got updated to upstream version 0.6.1.
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.