Re: Add Trolltech GPL licence text
Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:58:00 +0000
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:21:52PM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > 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?) Yes. > Of course, now that Qt is GPLv3, why do we still *require* GPLv2? ;-) I don't see any need to move to GPL 3 only for now and it help us keep compatibility with more free software apps if they want to copy bits of our code. Also we can't currently since we still have some GPL 2 only code. Jonathan