[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/7] qt5: bump to 5.8.0-rc

[Andreas Naumann]

Am 16.12.2016 um 21:30 schrieb Peter Seiderer:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:59:26 +0100, Andreas Naumann <anaumann at ultratronik.de> wrote:
>
>
>> diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk b/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk
>> index 7840a6e..79ad868 100644
>> --- a/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk
>> +++ b/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk
>> @@ -41,12 +41,10 @@ else
>>  QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -release
>>  endif
>>
>> -QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -largefile
>> -
>>  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_LICENSE_APPROVED),y)
>>  QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -opensource -confirm-license
>> -QT5BASE_LICENSE = GPLv3 or LGPLv2.1 with exception or LGPLv3, GFDLv1.3 (docs)
>> -QT5BASE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.GPLv3 LICENSE.LGPLv21 LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt LICENSE.LGPLv3 LICENSE.FDL
>> +QT5BASE_LICENSE = GPLv2 or LGPLv3, GPLv3 with exception(tools), GFDLv1.3 (docs)
>> +QT5BASE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.GPL2 LICENSE.GPLv3 LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT LICENSE.LGPLv3 LICENSE.FDL
>>  else
>>  QT5BASE_LICENSE = Commercial license
>>  QT5BASE_REDISTRIBUTE = NO
>
>
> I think it should be 'GPLv2+ or LGPLv3' for core/qtbase, see e.g (random) source file
> header root/src/corelib/kernel/qabstracteventdispatcher.h ([1]):
>
> ** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
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Thanks for pointing that out. For my changes I mainly used the entry in 
dist/changes-5.7.0 and I somehow overread the words "and later" in
  * GNU General Public License v2.0 (LICENSE.GPL2) and later

>
> On the Qt website only LGPLv3 and GPLv3 are mentioned ([2]), the licenses
> overview image at [3] says 'GPLGv2+/LGPLv3'.

According to your posted example header we can assume the later is 
correct right?

>
> The Qt examples are licensed under BSD ([4])....

As can be seen in [2] lot of modules are licensed under BSD, MIT, Apache 
and so on. Do we have to list them all?


regards,
Andreas


>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> [1] https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/corelib/kernel/qabstracteventdispatcher.h
> [2] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/licensing.html
> [3] https://www.ics.com/blog/changes-qt-licensing
> [4] https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/examples/gui/analogclock/main.cpp
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