Re: Breakdown of KDE licenses

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:15:23PM -0500, Troy Unrau wrote:
> I'm contemplating building some downloadable KDE 4 beta packages and
> I'm wondering if there is some concrete breakdown of the licenses used
> within KDE and what components they apply to? (on a wiki or something)
> so that I can display it to people who are downloading KDE...
> 
> Does anything like this even exist? If not, would it be useful to the
> KDE community to have such a breakdown for KDE 4 online someplace? (if
> so, I can create it...)

Qt is GPL 2, kdelibs is LGPL 2, the rest is mostly GPL but docs are
FDL and there are a few other licences.

For more details you can grep the sources or look at debian's
copyright file which is much the same thing.

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-kde/branches/kde4/packages/kdelibs/debian/copyright?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

Jonathan