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  • Jani Heikkinen's avatar
    Update copyright headers · 7354c6d3
    Jani Heikkinen authored 
    
Qt copyrights are now in The Qt Company, so we could update the source
code headers accordingly. In the same go we should also fix the links to
point to qt.io.

Change-Id: I3822a6484e8f7a420330de1cb1aeb0c3d1cf41b7
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergio Ahumada <sahumada@texla.cl>
    7354c6d3
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