[Development] Fwd: (QTBUG-46655) qt5base: font license files missing

Knoll Lars Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com
Wed Jun 17 07:33:34 CEST 2015


Yes, let's remove them. The font files shouldn't be part of qtbase for sure. We might still decide to package up certain fonts in the Qt for device creation product, but that's totally separate and has nothing to do with our repositories.

Cheers,
Lars





On 17/06/15 06:35, "development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of Hausmann Simon" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of Simon.Hausmann at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

>Make that two votes :)
>
>
>Simon
>
>  Original Message
>From: Thiago Macieira
>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 22:40
>To: development at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Development] Fwd: (QTBUG-46655) qt5base: font license files       missing
>
>
>On Tuesday 16 June 2015 12:28:51 Paul Olav Tvete wrote:
>> There is still code in Qt that reads and adds QPF files if they are
>> installed,  but I do not believe this is commonly used. In any case,  if
>> someone needs QPF fonts they can get them from other sources than the Qt
>> packages.  It sounds like a good idea to remove the font files from qtbase.
>
>One vote for removing then. The files will get removed by EOW unless someone
>has a very good reason not to.
>
>--
>Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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