Re: Academic Free License 2.1 + GPLv2+ code in kdelibs?

On Saturday 28 March 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi, to sort a i18n problem in current solid i'd like to reuse some
> libhal- storage code, the "problem" is that the code is licensed
> under Academic Free License 2.1 + GPLv2+
>
> And that is not a listed license in
>   http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> so i'd like to ask wheter it's ok even if it's not listed there (it
> seems noone really has problems linking to libhal) or if i should ask
> the author for permission to relincese under one of our approved
> licenses.

According to 
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
the Academic Free License 2.1 is incompatible with the GNU GPL. 
Therefore I'd say the Academic Free License 2.1 is not ok.


Regards,
Ingo

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