Re: [Interest] QtPdf from Qt open source online installer

[Jason H]

There's some license shenanegans going on.

https://www.qt.io/blog/change-in-open-source-licensing-of-qt-wayland-compositor-qt-application-manager-and-qt-pdf

However there was a later update:

https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2020-January/038457.html

 

So I don't know why it was not included. 

It seems that some people (myself included) objected to commericalizing a module that was based on a open source engine to start with. 

 

Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 7:28 PM
From: "Philip Schuchardt" <vpica...@gmail.com>
To: "Benjamin TERRIER" <b.terr...@gmail.com>
Cc: "qt qt" <interest@qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Interest] QtPdf from Qt open source online installer

Oops missed typed the link, cavewhere.com

 

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 7:27 PM Philip Schuchardt <vpica...@gmail.com> wrote:

I used QtPdf for mac and windows for my open source project (cavehere.com). 

 

I have to build QtPdf from source and install it for each platform and Qt version. Although it's not too bad, it isn't as automatic as all the other Qt modules. It would be great if it was supported directly.

 

 

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 5:04 PM Benjamin TERRIER <b.terr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
 

I've noticed that QtPdf is missing when using open source Qt with the online installer.

I was wondering what's the reason  for this?

 

As QtPDF is sold under a commercial license on the Qt marketplace I understand it cannot be distributed as part of Qt WebEngine for commercial users.

But for open source users?

 

Also it seems that QtPDF was indeed built when the release packages were build, but got partially removed. For instance on Windows the DLLs are still there, and on Linux the debug symbols are still there.

 

That means that open source users have to build Qt PDF themselves, it is a bit cumbersome.
 

Regards,

 

Benjamin

 

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