Brian Nelson wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Trolltech releases the "Open Source Edition" of Qt >>under the GPL. The complete package downloadable from >>their website includes the libraries, tools like >>qtdesigner, and documentation in .html format. Source >>code for the libraries and tools is provided. >> >>However, no source code is provided for the .html >>documentation files. > > The "source code" for the documentation is embedded as comments in the > program source code, in a doxygen-like way. > > Trolltech has not, to my knowledge, released the tool they use to > generate the HTML from the comments. I think their plan for Qt4 was to > convert to using doxygen since that's a more robust tool than their > internal stuff anyway. I'm not sure if that ever happened though.
Rather than immediately jumping to "qt is non-distributable", perhaps someone could just *ask* Trolltech if they could provide the tool they use to generate the HTML from the comments. Preferably without bringing up the legal issue, since this is also a simple technical issue. - Josh Triplett
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