I'm using QPrinter in Qt 4.8 to produce a PDF document. In the metadata of the
generated file (specifically the producer field) there is a Nokia copyright:
(C) 2011 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies)
I traced this back to QPdfEnginePrivate::writeInfo(). Looking in Qt 5 I see the
same thing only the copyright holder has changed to Digia:
(C) 2012 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies)
I am not a lawyer, but this seems to imply that Nokia/Digia is asserting a
copyright claim to content I created. Now preceding the copyright notice is the
Qt version (from QT_VERSION_STR), which got me thinking that perhaps a
trademark claim was trying to be asserted on the name "Qt" but was incorrectly
executed as a copyright claim.
Can someone comment on the intent of the copyright notice in
QPdfEnginePrivate::writeInfo()? I think it either needs to be removed or
changed to a trademark notice.
Regards,
Jeff Kehres
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