11.10.2019, 04:09, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kof...@chello.at>: > 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!
FWIW, that tarball already contains code under various licenses (BSD, LGPL 2.1, LGPL 3/GPL 2/Commercial, Apache 2.0, MIT, MPL 2, etc.) -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
