[Development] Policy: supplying the preferred format for modifications for everything we ship

[Thiago Macieira]

>From the Minified javascript thread, I propose this policy:

The Qt Project will always supply in its own infrastructure the preferred 
sources for modification for whatever we ship. Under the GPL and LGPL,  anyone 
who receives our sources and wishes to redistribute is required to do that 
anyway. Whether the same sources are present in our regular tarballs or not, 
it should be judged on a case-by-case basis.

For most of our own content, that is easy: we've been doing that since time 
immemorial.

For any third-party content, we need to have the correct scripts to recreate 
the files. 

Examples:

Qt binary releases		=> source tarballs
Qt Documentation		=> source tarballs
pre-generated lexers and parsers => source files (.g, .l, .y)
Images					=> original, high-resolution or vector images
Minified JS scripts		=> original, un-minified scripts
gnuwin32 binaries		=> gnuwin32 source tarballs

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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