Re: Add Trolltech GPL licence text

Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:29:38 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:09:37AM +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > Why do you want a special clause for code copied from Qt?
> >
> > Because it would not otherwise be allowed.
> 
> Yes, but why would you allow code to be added which isn't allowed by our 
> license policy?

It's moderatly common for code to be copied from Qt into KDE.  We
should allow that to happen as long as it doesn't harm us.

We are already contrained by the licencing terms Qt uses because we
link to it so it won't harm us to use those same terms.

Jonathan