License Changes
Changes in Qt and Third Party Modules released with Qt that are relevant to licensing.
Qt 5.12.3
Qt GUI Module
The license of Wintab API was now classified as 'Custom' instead of 'Public Domain'.
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 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 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.
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