Licenses and Acknowledgments

Licenses

Qt Creator is available under commercial licenses from The Qt Company, and under the GNU General Public License version 3, annotated with The Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0.

Credits

We would like to thank our contributors, who are listed in the Qt Creator change logs for each release. To view the change logs, select Help > Change Log.

Third-party Components

Qt Creator contains the following third-party components:

CMake Lexer	BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Gumbo, version 0.10.1	Apache License 2.0 AND MIT
JSON for Modern C++, version 3.11.2	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting, version v5.103.0	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: alert.xml	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: bash.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: cmake.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later
KSyntaxHighlighting: css.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: doxygen.xml	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: dtd.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: html.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: ini.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: java.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: javadoc.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: json.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: markdown.xml	GNU General Public License v2.0 OR BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
KSyntaxHighlighting: modelines.xml	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: perl.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: perl6.xml	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: powershell.xml	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: qdocconf.xml	MIT License
KSyntaxHighlighting: ruby.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.0 or later
KSyntaxHighlighting: toml.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.0
KSyntaxHighlighting: valgrind-suppression.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: xml.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: yacc.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
KSyntaxHighlighting: yaml.xml	GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
Lua, version 5.4.6	MIT License
Open Source Front-End for C++	MIT License
Open Source Tool for Generating C++ Code That Classifies Keywords	MIT License
Pty-Qt, version 045ca5f09f	MIT License
Pty-Qt/ConPty, version a38388615e	MIT License
Qt QR Code Generator Library	MIT License
QtKeychain	BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
RSTParser	BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
SQLite	Public Domain
Shellintegrations, version 463d9933a4	MIT License
Shellintegrations/Clink, version 680716f3d9	MIT License
Source Code Pro Font	SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Reserved Font Name
TartanLlama/expected	Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
WinPty, version 7e59fe2d09	MIT License
YAML C++ Parser, version 0.8.0	MIT License
conan.cmake	MIT License
kikito/inspect.lua	MIT License
libvterm, version 0.3.3	MIT License
litehtml, version v0.9	BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
ms-jpq/lua-async-await	MIT License
pyprof2calltree	MIT License
sol2, version 3.3.1 (revision 9c882a28)	MIT License
std::span Implementation for C++11 and Later	Boost Software License 1.0

The following third-party components are shipped with binary packages of Qt Creator:

Clazy	GNU Library General Public License v2
LLVM / Clang	Apache 2.0 License with LLVM exceptions
LLVMPipe	MIT License
Qbs	Qt Company Commercial License or GNU General Public License v3.0 only with Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0

Reference

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