[Development] Nokia/Digia copyright in PDF produced by QPrinter

Jeff Kehres jkehres at blackberry.com
Thu Oct 3 16:30:01 CEST 2013


I'm using QPrinter in Qt 4.8 to produce a PDF document. In the metadata of the generated file (specifically the producer field) there is a Nokia copyright:

    (C) 2011 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies)

I traced this back to QPdfEnginePrivate::writeInfo(). Looking in Qt 5 I see the same thing only the copyright holder has changed to Digia:

    (C) 2012 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies)

I am not a lawyer, but this seems to imply that Nokia/Digia is asserting a copyright claim to content I created. Now preceding the copyright notice is the Qt version (from QT_VERSION_STR), which got me thinking that perhaps a trademark claim was trying to be asserted on the name "Qt" but was incorrectly executed as a copyright claim.

Can someone comment on the intent of the copyright notice in QPdfEnginePrivate::writeInfo()? I think it either needs to be removed or changed to a trademark notice.

Regards,
Jeff Kehres
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