[PATCH] QCursor improvements in Qt2-win32
Richard Lärkäng
nouseforaname at home.se
Sat Jun 14 18:48:30 CEST 2003
> On Saturday 14 June 2003 12:07, Richard Lärkäng wrote:
...
> > Oh, and just so I'm sure, there are no legal problems with this
> > project right?
> >
>
> i will explain what we did, so that you can judge by yourself:
>
> before i started with the port, ralf habacker was having an
> eye on the qt
> releases trolltech did. he took the GPL'ed sources of qt for
> x11 from their
> public download server and put them into the cvs on
> kde-cygwin.sf.net. then
> he added stuff, so that it worked under cygwin with the
> xfree86 server for
> cygwin.
> so no problems here.
>
> then i started digging into the sources, and because i wanted
> to see how hard
> it would be to "port" this to windows gdi, i simply started
> by copying the
> *_x11* files to *_win* files, then i changed the makefiles to
> use these
> files, and step by step i went through the files, commented
> out the x11
> calls, which were doing stuff, and inserted the corresponding
> windows gdi
> calls.
>
> so i only worked on gpled sources and added stuff to it. all
> my stuff is under
> the gpl. although i am not sure, if i looked through all the
> source files i
> added, if they still have the original qt blurb on top, or if
> i changed it to
> gpl only.
>
> so i don't see any problem here.
>
> but now i have a commercial license, so i stopped working on
> this, because i
> have exactly the files i tried to create in the port in the
> original version
> from the trolls.
>
> so i don't see any problem, when you work on this, as long as
> you don't have
> access to the *_win* files from trolltech.
>
> Holger
Ok, so it was as I thought, but thanks for taking the time to
clarify.
Richard Lärkäng
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