Re: new KDE Licensing Draft
Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:14:25PM +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote: > I've had a short look at > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/Draft > > and imho the "or a simple v2 or later" text should be "or licensed under GPL > v2 or later". What would that change? > I think regarding the GPL section it should not allow v2 (only), but require > v2+. That's very much my objective. I've only had one disagreement so far (thiago). > As we can't use GPLv3 only right now due to Qt, maybe an additional > clause "the licensing has to be compatible with Qt free edition" would be an > idea. not sure if its a good one though. No, that would stop people taking code from KDE and using it in entirely separate projects with no Qt dependency (or against Qt commercial). Jonathan