diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index 3e8198529..df26ca3da 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -293,16 +293,8 @@ if [ "$PLATFORM" = Linux ] && [[ $QT_VERSION == 5* ]] ; then
 		rm -rf "$INSTALL_ROOT"/include/QtLocation > /dev/null 2>&1
 		rm -rf "$INSTALL_ROOT"/include/QtPositioning > /dev/null 2>&1
 
-		# thanks for nothing, Qt company...
-		# the forced open source releases apparently don't even deserve a tag in their repos
-		# so the correct SHA is extracted by looking at the qtlocation change introduced by
-		# the -lts-lgpl tag in https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qt5.git
-		if [ "$QT_VERSION" = "5.15.3" ] ; then
-			git clone https://code.qt.io/qt/qtlocation.git $QTLOC_GIT
-			git -C $QTLOC_GIT checkout 1bf01b84e30aab2b87a19184ce42160e6c92d8b
-		else
-			git clone --branch "v$QT_VERSION" https://code.qt.io/qt/qtlocation.git --depth=1 $QTLOC_GIT
-		fi
+		git clone --branch "v$QT_VERSION" https://code.qt.io/qt/qtlocation.git --depth=1 $QTLOC_GIT ||
+			git clone --branch "v$QT_VERSION-lts-lgpl" https://code.qt.io/qt/qtlocation.git --depth=1 $QTLOC_GIT
 
 		mkdir -p "$QTLOC_PRIVATE"
 		cd $QTLOC_GIT/src/location