Licenses Used in Qt

Qt contains some code that is not provided under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the Qt Commercial License, but rather under specific licenses from the original authors.

The Qt Company gratefully acknowledges these and other contributions to Qt. We recommend that programs that use Qt also acknowledge these contributions, and quote these license statements in an appendix to the documentation.

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Third-party Licenses

The following table lists parts (modules) of Qt that incorporate code licensed under third-party open-source licenses:

Qt Bluetooth

BlueZ

GNU General Public License v2.0 only (This does not force user code to be GPL'ed. For more info see details.)

Qt Location

Boost

Boost Software License 1.0

CSS Color Parser

MIT License

Clip2Tri Polygon Triangulation Library

MIT License

Clipper Polygon Clipping Library

Boost Software License 1.0

Earcut

ISC License

Earcut Polygon Triangulation Library

ISC License

Mapbox GL Native

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Poly2Tri Polygon Triangulation Library

BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

RapidJSON

MIT License

Vector Tile Library

ISC License

Wagyu Geometry Processing Library

MIT License

cURL Parse Date

MIT License

geojson-cpp

ISC License

geojson-vt-cpp

ISC License

geometry.hpp

ISC License

kdbush.hpp

ISC License

libc++

MIT and UIUC (BSD-like)

polylabel

ISC License

protozero

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

shelf-pack-cpp

ISC License

supercluster.hpp

ISC License

tao_tuple

MIT License

unique_resource

Boost Software License 1.0

variant

BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

Qt SVG

XSVG

MIT "Old Style" License

Additional Information

The following table lists related documents, such as information about Trademarks and other licenses used in parts of Qt.

Android GNU C++ Run-time Licensing

Provides additional information about the licensing of run-time dependencies of Qt for Android

LLVM Attribution

University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, BSD licenses

License Changes

Information about changes of licenses in Qt and Third Party Modules

Macros for Building with CMake

BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

Mesa llvmpipe

MIT License

Open Source Licensing of Qt

Information about open source licensing of Qt.

The Active Qt framework

Commercial and BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License.

The qtmain Library

Commercial and BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License.

Trademarks

Information about trademarks owned by The Qt Company and other organizations.