Re: About "+dfsg" of qtbase-opensource-src

[GONG Ruiqi <gongruiqi1@huawei.com>]

On 11/19/2025 11:52 PM, Sune Stolborg Vuorela wrote:
> 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.

I see. Thank you for your quick reply :)

> 
> /Sune