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Re: Trolltech GPL violation?



Brian Nelson wrote:
> <halbtaxabo-debml@yahoo.com> writes:
>>Trolltech releases the "Open Source Edition" of Qt
>>under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from
>>their website includes the libraries, tools like
>>qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source
>>code for the libraries and tools is provided.
>>
>>However, no source code is provided for the .html
>>documentation files.
> 
> The "source code" for the documentation is embedded as comments in the
> program source code, in a doxygen-like way.
> 
> Trolltech has not, to my knowledge, released the tool they use to
> generate the HTML from the comments.  I think their plan for Qt4 was to
> convert to using doxygen since that's a more robust tool than their
> internal stuff anyway.  I'm not sure if that ever happened though.

Rather than immediately jumping to "qt is non-distributable", perhaps
someone could just *ask* Trolltech if they could provide the tool they
use to generate the HTML from the comments.  Preferably without bringing
up the legal issue, since this is also a simple technical issue.

- Josh Triplett

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