On 3 nov. 2013, at 18:28, John Layt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 07 Oct 2013 10:35:26 David Boddie wrote: >> On Sun Oct 6 20:51:40 CEST 2013, Lars Knoll wrote: > >>> I think this is fully correct, and doesn't assert any copyright over the >>> generated PDF. It states that the PDF got produced by the PDF generator of >>> Qt 5.1.1, which is (C) Digia. >> >> While this interpretation may be valid, it is unusual to put the copyright >> of the creation tool in the Producer string. I can find documents with the >> following Producer strings on my disk: >> >> (AFPL Ghostscript 8.54) >> (Acrobat 5.0 Image Conversion Plug-in for Macintosh) >> (Adobe PDF library 4.800) >> (Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01) >> (GNU Ghostscript 7.07) >> (GPL Ghostscript 9.05) >> (ImageMagick 6.3.8 01 >> (Inkscape inkscape 0.44.1) >> (LaTeX with hyperref) >> (Mac OS X 10.5.8 Quartz PDFContext) >> (MiKTeX pdfTeX-1.40.9) >> (Microsoft� Publisher 2010) >> (cairo 1.9.5 (http: >> (pdfTeX-2.00.0) >> (pdfeTeX-1.403) >> (xdvipdfmx \(0.7.5\)) >> >> The only two that I found that included a copyright symbol were Qt and >> Microsoft Word. The above Microsoft Publisher string presumably includes a >> registered trademark symbol, which is more common. >> >> I suggest removing the Producer copyright string to avoid confusion since it >> is clear that Digia doesn't seek to claim copyright on user-generated >> content. Along the same lines, it might be useful to add a setProducer() >> function to QPrinter for applications that create PDFs as a key part of >> their functionality. > > Good analysis David, makes it clear this is not normal practice. I've raised > change https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,70182 to remove the > copyright > statement for 5.2 (which will need to be back-ported to 4.8). I'll leave the > Producer api for 5.3. > > Cheers! > > John.
The backport is available at https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,70187 Cheers ! Samuel _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
