Re: About "+dfsg" of qtbase-opensource-src
On Wednesday, November 19, 2025 4:55:14 AM Central European Standard Time GONG
Ruiqi wrote:
> And then I came across the Qt source package. By comparing with the
> upstream release[1], I noticed that qtbase-opensource-src[2]
> (specifically, 5.15.15+dfsg-6), besides some binaries and rfcxxx docs,
> removed the following components:
>
> examples/xml/htmlinfo/
> src/3rdparty/iaccessible2/
> src/3rdparty/sqlite/
> src/3rdparty/wintab/
>
> But I don't see how/why these particular components violates the DSFG,
> as they seem to be well licensed and allow others to
> use/redistribute/modify them. So would you please explain the reason for
> their removal? Thanks in advance.
Not all of them violates the DFSG, but most of 3rdparty is unneeded because we
use system components.
Because *some* of the components, likely the binaries and the RFC docs are
non-free, we just use the opportunity to remove some unneeded stuff as well.
/Sune
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