[Pkg-kde-extras] About "+dfsg" of qtbase-opensource-src

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi!

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 11:55:14AM +0800, GONG Ruiqi wrote:
> Dear Debian Qt Maintainers,
>
> Recently I've been researching the open-source license compliance
> situation of multiple communities, and I'm impressed by the DFSG
> practice of Debian community, which makes me want to dive into it to see
> more details.
>
> And then I came across the Qt source package. By comparing with the
> upstream release[1], I noticed that qtbase-opensource-src[2]
> (specifically, 5.15.15+dfsg-6), besides some binaries and rfcxxx docs,
> removed the following components:
>
>   examples/xml/htmlinfo/
>   src/3rdparty/iaccessible2/
>   src/3rdparty/sqlite/
>   src/3rdparty/wintab/
>
> But I don't see how/why these particular components violates the DSFG,
> as they seem to be well licensed and allow others to
> use/redistribute/modify them. So would you please explain the reason for
> their removal? Thanks in advance.

For some of the issues, please see https://bugs.debian.org/924599.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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