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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-127973

Mention Third-Party Code Attributions in About Qt dialog

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P2: Important
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    • 6.8.0
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    Description

      Extend the dialog shown by QApplication::aboutQt() to mention third-party code that requires attribution (like e.g. (L)GPL code).

      Background

      Some open source licenses require an attribution in dialogs about the application's copyright, like LGPL 2.1:

      If the work during execution displays copyright notices, you must include the copyright notice for the Library among them, as well as a reference directing the user to the copy of this License.

      Or the LGPL 3.0:

      If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:

      <program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
      This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
      This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
      under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

      The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program's commands might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an “about box”.

      It would be good if Qt could make this easier for applications by automatically listing such third-party components - if they're actually loaded at runtime - in the dialog.

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