Qt Licensing | Qt 6.11 (original) (raw)
Qt is available under different licensing options designed to accommodate the needs of our various users:
- Qt licensed under commercial licenses is appropriate for development of proprietary/commercial software where you do not want to share any source code with third parties or otherwise cannot comply with the terms of the GNU LGPL version 3.
- Qt licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3 is appropriate for the development of Qt applications provided you can comply with the terms and conditions of the GNU LGPL version 3 (or GNU GPL version 3).
- Qt components licensed under the Qt Marketplace License Agreement are appropriate for the development of Qt applications commonly with Qt software components licensed under the commercial or GNU LGPL version 3 (or GNU GPL version 3) terms and conditions.
Qt contains also third-party code that is licensed under specific open-source licenses from the original authors.
Note: For open-source licensed Qt, some specific parts (modules) are not available under the GNU LGPL version 3, but under the GNU General Public License (GPL) instead.
Modules available under GNU General Public License v3
- Qt Canvas Painter
- Qt CoAP
- Qt Graphs
- Qt GRPC
- Qt HTTP Server
- Qt Lottie Animation
- Qt MQTT
- Qt Network Authorization
- Qt Qml Compiler
- Qt Quick 3D
- Qt Quick 3D Physics
- Qt Quick Timeline
- Qt Virtual Keyboard
- Qt Wayland Compositor
For commercial licensees, all modules are available under a single, commercial Qt license.
Qt documentation is available under commercial licenses from The Qt Company, and under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) version 1.3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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Educational licenses are available for students and educators in qualified educational institutions or universities.
See https://qt.io/licensing/ for an overview of Qt licensing.
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Third-Party Code in Qt
The following page documents the open-source licenses used in different parts of Qt:
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Starting from Qt 6.8, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) documents of third-party components in Qt are available. Information such as copyrights, licenses, versions, source repositories, and other relevant information are declared in SPDX 2.3 format.
Export Controls
Many jurisdictions impose export controls for various hardware and software products. In general, the mass-market Qt framework as well as the related tools provided by the Qt Group do not contain functionality that would cause them to be under tight regulations. The following page lists the relevant information about export controls.