GPL3 code in KDE?

John Layt <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Jan 2010 13:38:38 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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