Details
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User Story
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Resolution: Unresolved
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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.
Attachments
Issue Links
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QTBUG-123530 Add FFmpeg to about box in Qt Multimedia examples
- Closed