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41
42/*!
43 \page licenses.html
44 \title Other Licenses Used in Qt
45 \ingroup licensing
46 \brief Information about other licenses used for Qt components and third-party code.
47
48 Qt contains some code that is not provided under the the
49 \l{GNU General Public License (GPL)},
50 \l{GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)} or the
51 \l{Qt Commercial Editions}{Qt Commercial License Agreement}, but rather under
52 specific licenses from the original authors. Some pieces of code were developed
53 by Qt Software and others originated from third parties.
54 This page lists the licenses used, names the authors, and links
55 to the places where it is used.
56
57 Nokia gratefully acknowledges these and other contributions
58 to Qt. We recommend that programs that use Qt also acknowledge
59 these contributions, and quote these license statements in an
60 appendix to the documentation.
61
62 See also: \l{Licenses for Fonts Used in Qt for Embedded Linux}
63
64 \generatelist legalese
65
66 \hr
67
68 Copyright (C) 2000-2004, International Business Machines\br
69 Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.\br
70 Copyright (C) 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
71
72 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
73 software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
74 without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,
75 merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
76 to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above copyright notice(s)
77 and this permission notice appear in all copies of the Software and that both the above
78 copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
79
80 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
81 INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
82 PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER
83 OR HOLDERS INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, OR ANY SPECIAL INDIRECT OR
84 CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR
85 PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING
86 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
87
88 Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder shall not be used in
89 advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
90 without prior written authorization of the copyright holder.
91
92 \list
93 \o Parts of WebKit used by the QtWebKit module
94 \endlist
95
96 \hr
97
98 Copyright (c) 1998 by Bjorn Reese <[email protected]>
99
100 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
101 purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
102 copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
103
104 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
105 WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
106 MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE AUTHORS AND
107 CONTRIBUTORS ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY IN ANY CONCEIVABLE MANNER.
108
109 \list
110 \o Parts of the QCrashHandler class
111 \endlist
112
113 \hr
114
115 Parts of the FreeType projects have been modified and put into Qt
116 for use in the painting subsystem. These files are ftraster.h,
117 ftraster.c, ftgrays.h and ftgrays.c. The following modifications
118 has been made to these files:
119
120 \list
121 \i Renamed FT_ and ft_ symbols to QT_FT_ and qt_ft_ to avoid name
122 conflicts in \c{qrasterdefs_p.h}.
123 \i Removed parts of code not relevant when compiled with
124 _STANDALONE_ defined.
125 \i Changed behavior in \c{ftraster.c} to follow X polygon filling
126 rules.
127 \i Implemented support in \c{ftraster.c} for winding / odd even
128 polygon fill rules.
129 \i Replaced bitmap generation with span generation in \c{ftraster.c}.
130 \i Renamed \c{ftraster.h} as \c{qblackraster_p.h}.
131 \i Renamed \c{ftraster.c} as \c{qblackraster.c}.
132 \i Renamed \c{ftgrays.h} as \c{qgrayraster_p.h}.
133 \i Renamed \c{ftgrays.c} as \c{qgrayraster.c}.
134 \endlist
135
136 See \c src/3rdparty/freetype/docs/FTL.txt and \c
137 src/3rdparty/freetype/docs/GPL.txt for license details.
138
139 \hr
140
141 Copyright (c) 1985, 1986, 1987 X Consortium
142
143 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
144 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
145 "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
146 without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
147 distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
148 permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
149 the following conditions:
150
151 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
152 in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
153
154 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
155 OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
156 MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
157 IN NO EVENT SHALL THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
158 OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
159 ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
160 OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
161
162 Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall
163 not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or
164 other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
165 from the X Consortium.
166
167 \list
168 \o Parts of the Q3PolygonScanner class used in Qt for Embedded Linux
169 \endlist
170
171 \hr
172
173 Copyright 1987 by Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
174
175 All Rights Reserved
176
177 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
178 documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
179 provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
180 both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
181 supporting documentation, and that the name of Digital not be
182 used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
183 software without specific, written prior permission.
184
185 DIGITAL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
186 ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL
187 DIGITAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
188 ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
189 WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
190 ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS
191 SOFTWARE.
192
193 \list
194 \o Parts of the Q3PolygonScanner class used in Qt for Embedded Linux
195 \endlist
196
197 \hr
198
199 Copyright 1985, 1987, 1998 The Open Group
200
201 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
202 documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
203 the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
204 copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
205 documentation.
206
207 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
208 all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
209
210 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
211 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
212 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
213 OPEN GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
214 AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
215 CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
216
217 Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall not be
218 used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings
219 in this Software without prior written authorization from The Open Group.
220
221 \list
222 \o Parts of the internal QKeyMapper class on X11 platforms
223 \endlist
224
225 \hr
226
227 pnmscale.c - read a portable anymap and scale it
228
229 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
230
231 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
232 documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
233 that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
234 copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
235 documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or
236 implied warranty.
237
238 \list
239 \o Parts of the internal QImageSmoothScaler::scale() function use code
240 based on pnmscale.c by Jef Poskanzer.
241 \endlist
242*/
243
244/*!
245 \page licenses-fonts.html
246 \title Licenses for Fonts Used in Qt for Embedded Linux
247 \ingroup qt-embedded-linux
248 \ingroup licensing
249 \brief Information about the licenses of fonts supplied with Qt for Embedded Linux.
250
251 The fonts supplied with Qt for Embedded Linux have been obtained under a
252 variety of different licenses listed below.
253
254 \tableofcontents
255
256 See also: \l{Other Licenses Used in Qt}
257
258 \section1 Adobe Helvetica
259
260 Copyright 1984-1989, 1994 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
261 Copyright 1988, 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation.
262
263 Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be
264 registered in certain jurisdictions.
265 Permission to use these trademarks is hereby granted only in
266 association with the images described in this file.
267
268 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software
269 and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
270 granted, provided that the above copyright notices appear in all
271 copies and that both those copyright notices and this permission
272 notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of
273 Adobe Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation not be used in
274 advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
275 without specific, written prior permission. Adobe Systems and
276 Digital Equipment Corporation make no representations about the
277 suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as
278 is" without express or implied warranty.
279
280 \section1 Adobe Utopia
281
282 Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed
283 typefaces is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice
284 appears in all whole and partial copies of the software and that the
285 following trademark symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified
286 copies of the software:
287
288 Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated
289 Utopia (R)
290 Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated
291
292 The Utopia font
293 Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights
294 Reserved.Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems
295 Incorporated.
296
297 \section1 Babelfish
298
299 \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_licenses.qdoc 1
300
301 \section1 Bigelow & Holmes Luxi
302
303 Luxi fonts copyright (c) 2001 by Bigelow & Holmes Inc. Luxi font
304 instruction code copyright (c) 2001 by URW++ GmbH. All Rights
305 Reserved. Luxi is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc.
306
307 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
308 a copy of these Fonts and associated documentation files (the "Font
309 Software"), to deal in the Font Software, including without
310 limitation the rights to use, copy, merge, publish, distribute,
311 sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Font Software, and to permit
312 persons to whom the Font Software is furnished to do so, subject to
313 the following conditions:
314
315 The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice
316 shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software.
317
318 The Font Software may not be modified, altered, or added to, and in
319 particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may not
320 be modified nor may additional glyphs or characters be added to the
321 Fonts. This License becomes null and void when the Fonts or Font
322 Software have been modified.
323
324 THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
325 EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
326 MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
327 OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
328 BIGELOW & HOLMES INC. OR URW++ GMBH. BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES
329 OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT,
330 INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
331 CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR
332 INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT
333 SOFTWARE.
334
335 Except as contained in this notice, the names of Bigelow & Holmes
336 Inc. and URW++ GmbH. shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to
337 promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Font Software without
338 prior written authorization from Bigelow & Holmes Inc. and URW++ GmbH.
339
340 For further information, contact:
341
342 [email protected]
343 or
344 [email protected]
345
346 \section1 Bitstream Charter and Courier
347
348 (c) Copyright 1989-1992, Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA.
349
350 You are hereby granted permission under all Bitstream propriety rights
351 to use, copy, modify, sublicense, sell, and redistribute the 4 Bitstream
352 Charter (r) Type 1 outline fonts and the 4 Courier Type 1 outline fonts
353 for any purpose and without restriction; provided, that this notice is
354 left intact on all copies of such fonts and that Bitstream's trademark
355 is acknowledged as shown below on all unmodified copies of the 4 Charter
356 Type 1 fonts.
357
358 BITSTREAM CHARTER is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.
359
360 \section1 Bitstream Vera
361
362 Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc.
363
364 All Rights Reserved.
365
366 Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc.
367
368 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
369 a copy of the fonts accompanying this license ("Fonts") and associated
370 documentation files (the "Font Software"), to reproduce and distribute
371 the Font Software, including without limitation the rights to use,
372 copy, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Font
373 Software, and to permit persons to whom the Font Software is furnished
374 to do so, subject to the following conditions:
375
376 The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice
377 shall be included in all copies of one or more of the Font Software
378 typefaces.
379
380 The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in
381 particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be
382 modified and additional glyphs or characters may be added to the
383 Fonts, only if the fonts are renamed to names not containing either
384 the words "Bitstream" or the word "Vera".
385
386 This License becomes null and void to the extent applicable to Fonts
387 or Font Software that has been modified and is distributed under the
388 "Bitstream Vera" names.
389
390 The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but
391 no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by
392 itself.
393
394 THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
395 EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
396 MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
397 OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
398 BITSTREAM OR THE GNOME FOUNDATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
399 OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
400 OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
401 OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT
402 SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.
403
404 Except as contained in this notice, the names of Gnome, the Gnome
405 Foundation, and Bitstream Inc., shall not be used in advertising or
406 otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Font
407 Software without prior written authorization from the Gnome Foundation
408 or Bitstream Inc., respectively. For further information, contact:
409 fonts at gnome dot org.
410
411 \omit
412 http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts
413 \endomit
414
415 See also:
416 \l{http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html}{Vera Open Source Fonts}
417
418 \section1 Cursor
419
420 The Cursor font is distributed with the following declaration:
421
422 \e{Copyright (c) 2000 XFree86, Inc.}
423
424 \section1 DejaVu Fonts
425
426 DejaVu fonts come with the following copyright statement:
427
428 Fonts are (c) Bitstream (see below). DejaVu changes are in public domain. Glyphs imported from Arev fonts are (c) Tavmjung Bah (see below)
429
430 \snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_licenses.qdoc 2
431
432 \section1 Fixed Fonts
433
434 The 5x7 and 6x13 fonts each contain the following copyright notice:
435
436 \e{Public domain font. Share and enjoy.}
437
438 \section1 IBM Courier
439
440 IBM Courier - Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 1990, 1991
441
442 You are hereby granted permission under the terms of the IBM/MIT X Consortium
443 Courier Typefont agreement to execute, reproduce, distribute, display, market,
444 sell and otherwise transfer copies of the IBM Courier font to third parties.
445
446 The font is provided "AS IS" without charge. NO WARRANTIES OR INDEMNIFICATION
447 ARE GIVEN, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING, BUT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED
448 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
449
450 \section1 Micro
451
452 The Micro font contains the following copyright notice:
453
454 \e{Public domain font. Share and enjoy.}
455
456 \section1 Unifont
457
458 The Unifont font was originally obtained from
459 \l{http://www.czyborra.com/}{Roman Czyborra} under the following license:
460
461 \e{All of my works you find here are freeware. You may freely copy, use, quote,
462 modify or redistribute them as long as you properly attribute my contribution
463 and have given a quick thought about whether Roman might perhaps be interested
464 to read what you did with his stuff. Horizontal rules don't apply.}
465*/
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