[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29] qt, qt5: only ever use the free/opensource licenses
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Sun Apr 23 21:12:28 UTC 2017
Hi all,
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.
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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