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

[GONG Ruiqi]

On 11/20/2025 3:20 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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.

Got it. That's really helpful. Thanks a lot!

> 
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> Dmitry Shachnev