Re: EBN: Copyright and License

Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.general,gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 17.07.07 19:03:54, Ian Wadham wrote:
>> Is KDE 4 adopting [GPLv3]? 
> 
> AFAIK thats not possible unless TT changes Qt license to gpl2 or later
> (its gpl2 only atm).

It is correct that KDE cannot use "GPLv3". AFAIK however KDE can use 
"GPLv3 + permission to link to Qt" (additional permissions may be needed 
for other parts of KDE, but probably not since libs are LGPL.

> Any further license discussions should be done on [email protected],
> this is the wrong list for such things.

Is that list working? I've tried to post to it before (trying again now) 
and nothing happened, I'm also not *getting* any activity there despite 
all the people mentioning GPLv3 and all the requests to move discussion 
there.

-- 
Matthew
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