Qt-interest Archive, April 2007
Re: Legal/licensing question about docs
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Apologies for the late reply. I've only just found the time to discuss this
issue with my colleagues.
Brenden Matthews wrote:
> I'm developing a GPL app and I have a small question regarding the
> documentation. In particular, I'm wondering if the Trolltech API docs are
> also available under the GPL (I could not find it explicitly specified
> anywhere).
Since much of the documentation is included in source files, our
interpretation of the situation is that the API documentation falls under
the same license as the code in those files. So, in the GPL version of Qt,
the API documentation is also licensed under the GPL.
> The reason for this is that I want to use the tables from the
> QDateTime::toString() documentation in a dialog and I am too lazy to
> recreate them myself. I didn't think this would be a problem but I
> figured I'd ask before possibly upsetting someone with regards to
> copyright infringement.
You can go ahead and do this as long as you comply with the terms and
conditions of the GPL. The source text for the documentation can be found
in a comment immediately preceding the relevant function implementation in
the src/corelib/tools/qdatetime.cpp file.
Regards,
David
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