diff --git a/doc/src/legal/android-runtime-licensing-notes.qdoc b/doc/src/legal/android-runtime-licensing-notes.qdoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7e75ed6030f68b5ecbd4a27ff4c81662d7ff1ec --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/legal/android-runtime-licensing-notes.qdoc @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +/**************************************************************************** +** +** Copyright (C) 2013 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies). +** Contact: http://www.qt-project.org/legal +** +** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit. +** +** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$ +** Commercial License Usage +** Licensees holding valid commercial Qt licenses may use this file in +** accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the +** Software or, alternatively, in accordance with the terms contained in +** a written agreement between you and Digia. For licensing terms and +** conditions see http://qt.digia.com/licensing. 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Instead, +apps that depend on features such as STL, exceptions, or RTTI, must include an additional +native run-time library that provides the features they need. + +Qt will by default use the GNU libstdc++ library which is distributed as part of the Google Android NDK. +Qt Creator will copy this library into the .APK for any Qt-based Android app. The library will then be +loaded by the app on start-up to meet the run-time requirements of Qt. + +The GNU C++ run-time is licensed under the +\l{http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/appendix_gpl.html}{GNU General Public License version 3} with +an exception which grants permission for run-time linking and usage of the library by an application which +would otherwise violate the terms of the main license. 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