Shadertools module provides an executable that is used by multimedia at build time only. So there is no runtime dependencies between qtmultimedia and shadertools, so that's the key, I guess.
Regards, Alexey. On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 19:00 Adam Light <acli...@gmail.com> wrote: > At https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtmultimedia-index.html, the Qt Multimedia > module is listed as being available under these licenses: > * commercial > * LGPL, v3 > * GPL, v2 > > In a git checkout of the 6.2 branch, .gitmodules contains this: > [submodule "qtmultimedia"] > depends = qtbase qtshadertools > recommends = qtdeclarative > path = qtmultimedia > url = ../qtmultimedia.git > branch = 6.2 > status = addon > > According to https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtshadertools-index.html, the Qt > Shader Tools module is available under these licenses: > * commercial > * GPL, v3 > > If qtshadertools is required in order to build qtmultimedia, and > qtshadertools is not licensed under LGPL, how can qtmultimedia be licensed > under LGPL? > > Is it possible to build qtmultimedia in such a way as to not use/require > qtshadertools? Our application uses qtmultimedia but I don't think it uses > anything that involves qtshadertools. Our application currently uses Qt 5 > under the LGPL license and unless I'm misunderstanding it seems that we > would not be able to use Qt 6 under the LGPL license unless we get rid of > qtmultimedia. > > Thanks for any clarification > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest >
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