I wrote:
> Tuukka Turunen wrote:
>> Qt PDF is a new module, which has not been released earlier despite the
>> pre-release code being available. Changing the license to GPLv3 will
>> allow The Qt Company to support the module going forward.
>
> But this license change makes the module effectively useless for the
> community because we already have a GPLv3-licensed implementation,
> Poppler-Qt. The more liberal license was the only added value of PDFium.
PS: In addition, Qt PDF is de facto not a new module, but was added to the
existing LGPL-licensed QtWebEngine module (because it uses the PDFium from
QtWebEngine), so you will be shipping one tarball with differently licensed
parts. This will be really confusing!
Kevin Kofler
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