[SailfishDevel] QtLocation | Qt 5.6

Adam Pigg adam at piggz.co.uk
Mon Jan 9 21:32:42 UTC 2017


I guess we need to wait for the internal review that was mentioned in the
meeting, however it would be interesting to understand the issues jolla
have with particular licenses for software included in sfos.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 at 21:29 Osmo Salomaa <otsaloma at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 09.01.2017 13:01, rinigus wrote:
> > from reading the meeting transcript it seems that we still don't have
> > straight answer regarding QtLocation 5.6 ("checking at the moment").
>
> They were not wordy, but my interpretation is that nothing has changed
> regarding QtLocation being allowed in store apps once it's upgraded to a
> stable release, i.e. >= 5.6. "Aiming to have solution for it in the first
> quarter of 2017" doesn't sound too bad, I was worried we were at a dead end.
>
> > However, I don't see the changes in the source code indicating exclusive
> > role of LGPLv3 among LGPL licenses. The LGPLv2.1 license is still there
> for
> > QtLocation module (see https://github.com/qt/qtlocation).
>
> Indeed. There's a license change commit in the source 2016-01-20, but
> that's saying it would be from 5.7 onwards. And that commit is not in the
> 5.6 branch.
>
>
> https://github.com/qt/qtlocation/commit/71dabb5dc330a47d91ee917ca60c871a88e8a42a
>
> Reading various other unclear sources, I see 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 all
> mentioned for the change -- maybe it was pushed back a few times? I have
> found no web page that would actually list the licenses under which Qt
> modules are available. Can anyone from Jolla comment? Do you have better
> information?
>
> --
> Osmo Salomaa <otsaloma at iki.fi>
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