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).
 
> PS: examples are licensed BSD.

So shipping then minified should not be a problem for Qt, at least in the 
example's case. And also in the best of my knowledge.

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

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