Licenses Used in Qt

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Third-party Licenses

The following table lists parts (modules) of Qt 6.2.12 that incorporate code licensed under third-party open-source licenses:

Qt 3D

Dear ImGui - ProggyClean.ttf

MIT License

Dear ImGui - stb

MIT License or Public Domain

Dear ImGui, version v1.66b

MIT License

Qt 5 Core Compatibility APIs

Text Codec: EUC-JP

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Text Codec: EUC-KR

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Text Codec: GBK

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Text Codec: ISO 2022-JP (JIS)

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Text Codec: Shift-JIS

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Text Codec: TSCII

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Text Codecs: Big5, Big5-HKSCS

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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 Core

BLAKE2 (reference implementation), version 54f4faa4c16ea34bcd59d16e8da46a64b259fc07

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal or Apache License 2.0

Data Compression Library (zlib), version 1.3.1

Zlib License

Easing Equations by Robert Penner

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

Efficient Binary-Decimal and Decimal-Binary Conversion Routines for IEEE Doubles, version 3.3.0

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

FreeBSD strtoll and strtoull, version 18b29f3fb8abee5d57ed8f4a44f806bec7e0eeff

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

KWin, version 5.13.4

BSD-3-Clause

MD4

Public Domain

MD5

Public Domain

PCRE2 - Stack-less Just-In-Time Compiler, version 10.43

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

PCRE2, version 10.43

BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License with PCRE2 binary-like Packages Exception

QEventDispatcher on macOS

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

Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-1

Public Domain

Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-3 - Keccak, version 3.2

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

Secure Hash Algorithm SHA-3 - brg_endian, version https://github.com/BrianGladman/sha/ commit 4b9e13ead2c5b5e41ca27c65de4dd69ae0bac228

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Secure Hash Algorithms SHA-384 and SHA-512

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

SipHash Algorithm

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

The Public Suffix List, version 883ced078a83f9d79a98933145425c221a5e51f0, fetched on 2024-01-25

Mozilla Public License 2.0

TinyCBOR, version 0.6+patches

MIT License

Unicode Character Database (UCD), version 26

Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)

Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), version v40

Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)

extra-cmake-modules, version 5.84.0

BSD-3-Clause

forkfd

MIT License

Qt D-Bus

libdus-1 headers, version dbus-1.13.12

Academic Free License v2.1, or GNU General Public License v2.0 or later

Qt GUI

Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts, version 1.7

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

Anti-aliasing rasterizer from FreeType 2

Freetype Project License or GNU General Public License v2.0 only

Bitstream Vera Font, version 1.10

Bitstream Vera Font License

Cocoa Platform Plugin

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

DejaVu Fonts, version 2.37

Bitstream Vera Font License

Freetype 2 - Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) support

MIT License

Freetype 2 - Portable Compiled Format (PCF) support

MIT License and MIT Open Group variant

Freetype 2 - zlib

Zlib License

Freetype 2, version 2.13.2

Freetype Project License or GNU General Public License v2.0 only

HarfBuzz-NG, version 8.3.0

MIT License

IAccessible2 IDL Specification, version 1.3.0

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

LibJPEG-turbo, version 3.0.2

Independent JPEG Group License and BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License and zlib License

LibPNG, version 1.6.43

Libpng License and PNG Reference Library version 2

MD4C, version 0.5.2

MIT License

Native Style for Android

Apache License 2.0

OpenGL ES 2 Headers, version Revision 27673

MIT License

OpenGL Headers, version Revision 27684

MIT License

Pixman, version 0.17.12

MIT License

Smooth Scaling Algorithm

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License and Imlib2 License

Vulkan API Registry, version 1.2.166

Apache License 2.0 or MIT License

Vulkan Memory Allocator, version 2.3.0

MIT License

WebGradients

MIT License

Wintab API

LCS-Telegraphics License

X Server helper

X11 License and Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer

XCB-XInput

MIT License

sRGB color profile icc file

International Color Consortium License

Qt Image Formats

TIFF Software Distribution (libtiff), version 4.6.0

Libtiff License

WebP (libwebp), version 1.3.2

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

Qt OPC UA

Open62541, version 1.1

Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 Universal License

Open62541, version 1.1

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open62541, version 1.1

Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 Universal License

Open62541, version 1.1

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Qt Positioning

Qt QML

JavaScriptCore Macro Assembler

BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

Qt Quick 3D

Qt Quick Controls

Qt SQL

SQLite, version 3.45.1

Public Domain

Qt SVG

XSVG

Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - sell variant

Qt Test

Catch2, version 2.13.10

Boost Software License 1.0

Cycle

MIT License

Linux Performance Events, version 3.7

GNU General Public License v2.0 only with Linux Syscall Note

Valgrind, version 3.14.0

BSD 4-clause "Original" or "Old" License

Qt Virtual Keyboard

OpenWnn

Apache License 2.0

PinyinIME

Apache License 2.0

Traditional Chinese IME (tcime)

Apache License 2.0 and BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

Qt Wayland Compositor

Qt WebEngine

AXE-CORE Accessibility Audit

MPL 2.0

Abseil

Apache 2.0

Alliance for Open Media Video Codec

BSD

Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine

BSD

Android Explicit Synchronization

Apache 2.0

BoringSSL

BSDish

Brotli

MIT

CRC32C

New BSD

Chromium License

BSD

CodeMirror 6

MIT

Compact Encoding Detection

Apache 2.0

Compact Language Detector v3

Apache 2.0

Crashpad

Apache 2.0

Dawn

Apache 2.0

Devtools-Frontend

BSD

Emoji Segmenter

Apache 2.0

Expat XML Parser

MIT

Fiat-Crypto: Synthesizing Correct-by-Construction Code for Cryptographic Primitives

MIT

FlatBuffers

Apache 2.0

Google Double Conversion

BSD

Headers for the Windows 10 WebAuthn API (webauthn.dll)

MIT

Lighthouse

Apache License 2.0

NVidia Control X Extension Library

MIT

OTS (OpenType Sanitizer)

BSD

One Euro Filter

BSD

PDFium

BSD

PFFFT: a pretty fast FFT.

BSD-like

Perfetto

Apache2

Protocol Buffers

BSD

Recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction

BSD 3-Clause

Snappy: A fast compressor/decompressor

New BSD

The Chromium Project

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

The Incremental Distributed Point Functions library

Apache 2.0

V8 fork of fdlibm

Fdlibm license

Volk Meta loader for Vulkan API

MIT

Vulkan Deps

BSD

VulkanMemoryAllocator

MIT

WebKit

BSD and LGPL v2 and LGPL v2.1

WebM container parser and writer.

BSD

WebP image encoder/decoder

BSD

WebRTC

BSD

Windows Template Library (WTL)

Microsoft Permissive License

Wuffs (Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely)

Apache 2.0

cpuinfo

BSD

dav1d is an AV1 decoder :)

2-Clause BSD

dynamic annotations

BSD

ffmpeg

LGPL 2.1

fontconfig

MIT

google-glog's symbolization library

BSD

harfbuzz-ng

MIT

hunspell

MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1

iccjpeg

Custom license

icu

MIT

inspector protocol

BSD

ipcz

BSD

jsoncpp

MIT

libavif - Library for encoding and decoding .avif files

2-Clause BSD

libevent

BSD

libgav1

Apache 2.0

libpng

Libpng license

libsrtp

3-clause BSD

libvpx

BSD

libxml

MIT

libxslt

MIT

libyuv

BSD

mesa_headers

MIT and SGI Free Software B License Version 2.0

modp base64 decoder

BSD

opus

BSD

re2 - an efficient, principled regular expression library

BSD 3-Clause

sqlite

Public domain

woff2

MIT

xdg-mime

Academic Free License version 2.0 or LGPL v2

xdg-user-dirs

MIT

zlib

Custom license

Shader Tools

SPIRV-Cross, version d137abeef57b2f3fdbdab0ad5590fe99a44ba546

Apache License 2.0 and Khronos License

glslang, version 11.1.0

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License, and Khronos License, and Apache License 2.0, and GNU General Public License v3.0 or later with Bison exception 2.2, and NVIDIA 2002 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 and Boost Software License 1.0

Notes about PDF Licensing

Details of restrictions on the use of PDF-related trademarks

The QtEntryPoint Library

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

Trademarks

Information about trademarks owned by The Qt Company.

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