[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/29] qt, qt5: only ever use the free/opensource licenses

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

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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