Re: Comments on proposal for revised license policy

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:38:55AM +0100, Alex Merry wrote:
> Hmm... it might make it more obvious.  And I think it should be Lesser.
> 
> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> version 2 of the GNU Library General Public License, or (at your
> option) version 2.1 or 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License,
> or, at the discretion of KDE e.v. (which shall act as a proxy as in 
> section 14 of version 3 of the License), any later version.

I've changed this in the Draft.

> Apparently TT's legal department are already reviewing GPLv3.  My guess 
> is they'll dual-license it under v2 or v3 at some point.

Yes, hopefully.

>  Or they might 
> just add GPL v3 to the exemptions, which should be enough for our 
> purposes, I think.

No it wouldn't (you can only link GPL 3 to GPL 3 or BSD etc, not GPL 2
even with exception).

Jonathan