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

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:14:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
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A Dissabte, 28 de març de 2009, Ingo Klöcker va escriure:
> 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.

I think you did not undersand me, the code is both licensed under
Academic Free License 2.1 AND GPLv2+

Albert

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> Regards,
> Ingo