[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29] qt, qt5: only ever use the free/opensource licenses
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Apr 24 15:53:52 UTC 2017
Arnout, All,
On 2017-04-23 23:12 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 23-04-17 22:31, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Hello All!
> >
> > This series drops the option to accept the "free license" (as per the
> > current prompts), to only ever use that, and no longer claim to allow
> > use of Qt/Qt5 under a proprietary version.
> >
> > The rationale behind this change is multi-fold:
> >
> > - the name of the tarballs we download clearly hint that they can
> > only be used under the opensource license;
> >
> > - the proprietary license is unknown to us (the Buildroot community
> > at large); we do not even know if there is a single such license;
> >
> > - we do not have such license choice for any other package in a
> > similar situation (e.g. mongoose); we only ever use the publicly
> > available licenses, always;
> >
> > - finally, we do not have such click-wrap acceptance option for any
> > license, be it free, opensource, or proprietary, and whether it be
> > redistributable or not. The licenses are available in the output
> > of legal-info, which a user should consult before using or
> > distributing the result of a build.
>
> In addition, this option (if not set) will stop the build for interactive
> handling, which is something we want to avoid.
>
> Big +1 to this series. I gave it a once-over and it looks OK to me (I didn't
> look carefully enough to give it a Reviewed-by though). I do have an issue with
> the legacy handling, as explained in my reply to that patch. I also wouldn't
> have split it up as much, but OK.
>
> >
> > So, we drop the option to "Approve free license" for both Qt and
> > Qt5, and do as we do for all packages: just use the publicly-known
> > opensource licenses.
> >
> > Users interested in using Qt under a proprietary license will have
> > to take special steps to use it (as they were already probably doing
> > anyway).
>
> Actually the proprietary Qt licenses that I've seen said that they also apply
> to the free download. Admittedly that was a couple of years ago, still Qt4.
Eh, what do I know of something I haven't seen? ;-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> Regards,
> Arnout
>
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
> >
> >
> > The following changes since commit 4c2b11977a70d418b7ae2cd7d4b62e77bddbc2c6
> >
> > syslog-ng: disable mongodb (2017-04-22 15:59:31 +0200)
> >
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> > git://git.buildroot.org/~ymorin/git/buildroot.git
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 0edfc64dedabab8b436312b1212c08dcf9765a05
> >
> > package/qt5: drop option for license approved (2017-04-23 19:09:57 +0200)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Yann E. MORIN (29):
> > package/qt: default to approved license
> > package/qt5base: default to approved license
> > package/qt: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5base: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt53d: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5canvas: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5connectivity: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5declarative: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5enginio: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5graphicaleffects: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5imageformats: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5location: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5multimedia: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5quickcontrols: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5quickcontrols2: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5script: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5sensors: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5serialbus: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5serialport: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5svg: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5tools: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5webchannel: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5webkit: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5websockets: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5x11extras: always use the opensource license
> > package/qt5xmlpatterns: always use the opensource license
> > configs: drop Qt/Qt5 license approval option
> > package/qt: drop option for license approved
> > package/qt5: drop option for license approved
> >
> > Config.in.legacy | 12 ++++++++++++
> > configs/beaglebone_qt5_defconfig | 1 -
> > configs/firefly_rk3288_demo_defconfig | 1 -
> > package/qt/Config.in | 11 -----------
> > package/qt/qt.mk | 6 +-----
> > package/qt5/qt53d/qt53d.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5base/Config.in | 12 ------------
> > package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5canvas3d/qt5canvas3d.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5connectivity/qt5connectivity.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5declarative/qt5declarative.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5enginio/qt5enginio.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5graphicaleffects/qt5graphicaleffects.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5imageformats/qt5imageformats.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5location/qt5location.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5multimedia/qt5multimedia.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5quickcontrols/qt5quickcontrols.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5quickcontrols2/qt5quickcontrols2.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5script/qt5script.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5sensors/qt5sensors.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5serialbus/qt5serialbus.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5serialport/qt5serialport.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5svg/qt5svg.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5tools/qt5tools.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5webchannel/qt5webchannel.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5webkit/qt5webkit.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5websockets/qt5websockets.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5x11extras/qt5x11extras.mk | 5 -----
> > package/qt5/qt5xmlpatterns/qt5xmlpatterns.mk | 5 -----
> > 29 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)
> >
>
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