GPL3 code in KDE?
John Layt <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:38:38 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.licensing |
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I've noticed an increasing amount of code in KDE svn being highlighted by Krazy (1) as being GPL3+ only which is against the KDE Licensing Policies (2). Before I go put my foot in it by nagging people to change the license, I thought I should check why this rule is in place so I can explain to them. I had thought it was something to do with Qt compatibility, but that makes no sense since Qt went GPL3+ and then LGPL2.1+ (3). Is this rule still needed, or is our policy simply to remain 100% GPL2 compatible until the ev decides to migrate to GPL3, i.e. to prevent GPL3 by stealth? Also, the libraries policy is for LGPL+ (or BSD or MIT or X11). A few small executables and scripts exist in the libraries under GPL licenses and would never be linked against. Do we want/need to make these LGPL as well? Cheers! John. (1) http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ (2) http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy (3) http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility