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Qt WebEngine Licensing

The Qt specific parts of the Qt WebEngine module are dual-licensed under Commercial and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3). In addition, the module contains code licensed under LGPLv2.

The module includes a snapshot of Chromium. As such, users need to respect the licenses of Chromium, and third-party code included in Chromium. The arguably most restrictive license to be respected by all users is LGPLv2.1.

Third party licenses included in the sources are:

Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine	BSD
Blackmagic DeckLink SDK - Mac	BSL (v 1.0)
Brotli	Apache 2.0
Chrome Custom Tabs - Example and Usage	Apache 2.0
ChromeVox	Apache 2.0
Chromium OS system API	BSD
Closure compiler	Apache 2.0
Cocoa extension code from Camino	MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Compact Language Detection	BSD
Crashpad	Apache 2.0
Darwin	Apple Public Source License 2.0
David M. Gay's floating point routines	MIT-like
Error Prone	Apache 2.0
Expat XML Parser	MIT
Flot Javascript/JQuery library for creating graphs	MIT
GifPlayer Animated GIF Library	Apache License 2.0
Google Cardboard	Apache 2.0
Hardware Composer Plus	Apache 2.0
IAccessible2 COM interfaces for accessibility	BSD
ISimpleDOM COM interfaces for accessibility	MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
JMake	GPL 2.0
Khronos header files	MIT/X11, SGI Free Software License B
LCOV - the LTP GCOV extension	GPL v2
LZMA SDK	Public domain
LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store	New BSD
Mojo	Chromium
NSBezierPath additions from Sean Patrick O'Brien	BSD
NVidia Control X Extension Library	MIT
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI)	MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)	MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Network Security Services (NSS)	MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
OTS (OpenType Sanitizer)	BSD
OpenH264	2-Clause BSD
OpenMAX DL	BSD
PLY (Python Lex-Yacc)	BSD
Paul Hsieh's SuperFastHash	BSD
Proguard	GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2
Protocol Buffers	BSD
Quick Color Management System	MIT
SMHasher	MIT, Public Domain
Skia	BSD
Snappy: A fast compressor/decompressor	New BSD
Speech Dispatcher	GPL (v2 or later)
Strongtalk	BSD
Sudden Motion Sensor library	University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
SwiftShader software renderer.	Proprietary
The USB ID Repository	BSD
V8 JavaScript Engine	BSD
Web Animations JS	Apache 2.0
WebKit	BSD and GPL v2
WebM container parser and writer.	BSD
WebP image encoder/decoder	BSD
WebRTC	BSD
Windows Template Library (WTL)	Microsoft Permissive License
boringssl	BSDish
bspatch	BSD Protection license
class-dump	GPL
d3	BSD 3-Clause
dom-distiller-js	BSD
dynamic annotations	BSD
fdlibm	Freely Distributable
ffmpeg	LGPL 2.1
fips181	BSD 3-Clause
flac	BSD
fontconfig	MIT
google-glog's symbolization library	BSD
google-jstemplate	Apache 2.0
google-safe-browsing	Apache 2.0
harfbuzz-ng	MIT
hunspell	MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
iccjpeg	Custom license
icu	MIT
ijar	Apache 2.0
jsoncpp	MIT
libevent	BSD
libexif	LGPL 2.1
libjingle	BSD
libjpeg-turbo	Custom license
libjpeg	Custom license
libpng	libpng license
libsecret	LGPL 2.1
libsrtp	3-clause BSD
libudev	LGPL 2.1
libusbx	LGPL 2.1
libva	MIT
libvpx	BSD
libxml	MIT
libxslt	MIT
libyuv	BSD
linux-syscall-support	BSD
mach_override	MIT and 2-clause BSD
mesa	MIT and LGPL v2
minigbm	BSD
modp base64 decoder	BSD
mt19937ar	BSD
ocmock	BSD with advertising clause
open-vcdiff	Apache 2.0, MIT, GPL v2 and custom licenses
opus	BSD
pyelftools	Public Domain
re2 - an efficient, principled regular expression library	BSD 3-Clause
sfntly	Apache 2.0
simplejson	MIT
sqlite	Public domain
talloc	LGPL v3
tcmalloc	BSD
tlslite	Public domain and BSD
url_parse	BSD and MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
usrsctp	New BSD
v4l-utils	LGPL 2.1
valgrind	BSD
wayland-protocols	MIT
wayland	MIT
woff2	Apache 2.0
x86inc	ISC from text in file header. Same text is copied to LICENSE file.
xdg-mime	Academic Free License version 2.0 or LGPL v2
xdg-user-dirs	MIT
xdg-utils	MIT
yasm	2-clause or 3-clause BSD licensed, with the exception of bitvect, which is triple-licensed under the Artistic license, GPL, and LGPL
zlib	Custom license
Chromium License	BSD

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