Remove year from generic Qt copyright information

Don't change any tr() strings though to not break
translations.

Task-number: QTBUG-121906
Change-Id: Iede7050c6850bf828cdfbcf90e6d597d86557d20
Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit 2f619974b4cb9527634ec9c9b60e3d47902ce76e)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>
(cherry picked from commit 99ca7e33f946b1e0d001b95c344d2d8286bb82b1)

5 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/assistant/assistant/mainwindow.cpp b/src/assistant/assistant/mainwindow.cpp
index 281cd9889..5a8d846b2 100644
--- a/src/assistant/assistant/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/assistant/assistant/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ void MainWindow::showAboutDialog()
             "<p>Version %2</p>"
             "<p>Browser: %3</p></center>"
             "<p>Copyright (C) %4 The Qt Company Ltd.</p>")
-            .arg(tr("Qt Assistant"), QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR), browser, QStringLiteral("2023")),
+            .arg(tr("Qt Assistant"), QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR), browser, QString()),
             resources);
         QLatin1String path(":/qt-project.org/assistant/images/assistant-128.png");
         aboutDia.setPixmap(QString(path));
diff --git a/src/designer/src/designer/versiondialog.cpp b/src/designer/src/designer/versiondialog.cpp
index eacfe79fc..d2d0d32be 100644
--- a/src/designer/src/designer/versiondialog.cpp
+++ b/src/designer/src/designer/versiondialog.cpp
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ VersionDialog::VersionDialog(QWidget *parent)
 
     lbl->setText(tr("%1"
                     "<br/>Copyright (C) %2 The Qt Company Ltd."
-                    ).arg(version, "2023"_L1));
+                    ).arg(version, QString()));
 
     lbl->setWordWrap(true);
     lbl->setOpenExternalLinks(true);
diff --git a/src/distancefieldgenerator/mainwindow.cpp b/src/distancefieldgenerator/mainwindow.cpp
index 3c4a0fb8b..d660a6d6b 100644
--- a/src/distancefieldgenerator/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/distancefieldgenerator/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ void MainWindow::about()
                        "to prepare a font cache for Qt applications.</p>"
                        "<p>Copyright (C) %2 The Qt Company Ltd.</p>")
                     .arg(QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR))
-                    .arg(QLatin1String("2019")));
+                    .arg(QString()));
     msgBox->show();
 }
 
diff --git a/src/linguist/linguist/mainwindow.cpp b/src/linguist/linguist/mainwindow.cpp
index 71b4140ae..bc7f5dc69 100644
--- a/src/linguist/linguist/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/linguist/linguist/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -1346,11 +1346,9 @@ void MainWindow::about()
 
     const QString description
             = tr("Qt Linguist is a tool for adding translations to Qt applications.");
-    const QString copyright
-            = tr("Copyright (C) %1 The Qt Company Ltd.").arg(QStringLiteral("2023"));
     box.setText(QStringLiteral("<center><img src=\":/images/icons/linguist-128-32.png\"/></img><p>%1</p></center>"
                                "<p>%2</p>"
-                               "<p>%3</p>").arg(version, description, copyright));
+                               "<p>Copyright (C) The Qt Company Ltd.</p>").arg(version, description));
 
     box.setWindowTitle(QApplication::translate("AboutDialog", "Qt Linguist"));
     box.setIcon(QMessageBox::NoIcon);
diff --git a/src/qdbus/qdbusviewer/mainwindow.cpp b/src/qdbus/qdbusviewer/mainwindow.cpp
index b13b07ffa..ef75dbeb7 100644
--- a/src/qdbus/qdbusviewer/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/qdbus/qdbusviewer/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ void MainWindow::about()
                    "<h3>%1</h3>"
                    "<p>Version %2</p></center>"
                    "<p>Copyright (C) %3 The Qt Company Ltd.</p>")
-                        .arg(tr("D-Bus Viewer"), QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR), u"2023"_s));
+                        .arg(tr("D-Bus Viewer"), QLatin1String(QT_VERSION_STR), QString()));
     box.setWindowTitle(tr("D-Bus Viewer"));
     box.exec();
 }