Re: Add Trolltech GPL licence text

Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:21:52 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?

Looking at the originally-referenced wiki page, the relevant addition 
seems to be that, in addition to allowing "GPL version 2 or version 3 or 
later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V", we will now also 
allow "GPL version 2 or version 3 or later versions approved by 
Trolltech ASA and the KDE Free Qt Foundation". (What about code that 
contains a mix of those sources? I suppose approval of a later license 
by both "the membership of KDE e.V" and "Trolltech ASA and the KDE Free 
Qt Foundation" is required?)

Of course, now that Qt is GPLv3, why do we still *require* GPLv2? ;-)

-- 
Matthew
Current geek index: 62%