Re: kdelibs/klauncher license question

On Thursday 19 February 2009 01:44:08 Michael Pyne wrote:

> The kdelibs/kinit/proctitle.{h,cpp} files are both licenses GPLv2+ instead
> of LGPL like the rest of kdelibs.
>
> In this case it is compiled into the executable kdeinit4 (not a library
> however).  So that's kind of a mitigating factor, but is this desired?  I
> guess really the question is does this fall into a "Source file that is
> part of a library with a public API	 which is part of KDE Platform" [1]?

It doesn't matter, because proctitle.{h,cpp} are only in an application, not a 
library.  Note that the D-Bus interface does not propagate the GPL, only 
proper linking (in the compiler sense) does.

The reason it is under the GPL is that they come from another project (an FTP 
daemon, if memory serves me correctly, though I'm not sure which one) that is 
licensed under the GPL.

Alex



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