Re: [Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

On 4/5/2014 9:14 PM, Jonas Thiem wrote: > In that case, let me suggest again that > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/licensing.html should have a single > text file version with all that info in one single, easy to embed text > file including all copyright & license info, including the full LGPL >

Re: [Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

Thiago Macieira schreef op 6-4-2014 4:00: > What's more, there are a few requirements that cannot be met by a dialog. For > example, everyone needs to distribute Qt themselves, on a server they own or > are responsible for, not rely Qt Project or Digia to have the sources. Nonsense. You don't need

Re: [Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just talked with Thiago Macieira on IRC, and we concluded that maybe the about dialog is only meant for someone interested in paying credit to Qt, and nothing more. (no legal complete write-up of all the required copyright stuff and such) In that c

Re: [Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 True about the source code distribution, but maybe the dialog could at least attempt to cover all written stuff that needs to be in a program according to all the licenses in Qt? That would already save a lot of work. And yes, people shouldn't rely on

Re: [Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

Em dom 06 abr 2014, às 00:25:17, Jonas Thiem escreveu: > Please don't take this purely as an annoying nitpick. I would really ask > you to keep in mind that those issues possibly affect EVERY Qt program > where the author relies in good faith on the accuracy of the aboutQt > dialog to safe him from

Re: [Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Small additional note: I'm assuming the users want to use Qt with LGPL licensing. But even with the GPL licensing alternative, I believe the dialog would also be insufficient since it would need to point to the GPL license instead. And even for comm

[Interest] aboutQt (Qt 4.8) dialog lacks vital information -> people relying on it violate license terms(?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I asked for a summary text of all licensing information which needs to embedded into an application for legal reasons before, and I got the IMHO not really satisfying answer to simply use the aboutQt dialog. (what if I want my own with some i