[Development] Minified javascript libraries in Qt source code

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Thursday 26 September 2013 15:07:28 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
wrote:
> On Thursday 26 September 2013 09:42:01 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On quinta-feira, 26 de setembro de 2013 11:31:07, Lisandro Damián Nicanor
> > 
> > Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > > This means that if Qt ships a minified javascript library, a Debian
> > > maintainer  should either:
> > > 
> > > a) Repack the source tarball without the minified javascript libs and
> > > use
> > > the  system provided ones prior to start the building process.
> > > 
> > > b) Repack the source tarball to include the unminified javascript libs
> > > and
> > > either minify them upon build time or use them unminified (after all,
> > > they
> > > are  mostly used in examples).
> > > 
> > > c) Upon proper configuration (like ./configure --use-system-js), use the
> > > system lib to provide the (un)minified js.
> > 
> > Since we wouldn't be modifying the libraries, we'd just be passing them
> > 
> > through, can we have option d:
> >  d) Ship the libraries unmodified from upstream and include a link to
> >  where
> > 
> > they were obtained and where to obtain the non-minified sources.
> > 
> > Or is that not acceptable as per our own licensing? That is, since we're
> > shipping our sources as LGPLv2.1, do we need to ship the 3rdparty JS
> > libraries we use in their preferred form for modification?
> 
> webkit-fancybrowser-jquery-qrc.html and
> webkit-fancybrowser-jquery-min-js.html contain a copy of the minified
> jquery. As the best of my knowledge, this are GFDL-NIV licensed (please
> correct me if I am wrong).
> 

qt4's tests/benchmarks/script/sunspider/tests/string-unpack-code.js also seems 
to contain minified js, but I don't know for sure the license of that code.


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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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