Re: Include a qt demos class in KDE

On Tuesday 27 July 2010, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Daniele E. Domenichelli 
wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I found a class in Qt demos that I would like to use in my code
> > with a few modifications.
> > 
> > The class is licensed LGPL 2.1/GPL 3 but is not installed by
> > default with qt, so I would like to know if it is possible to use
> > it in KDE and if the license is compatible. This could require to
> > copy the class in the svn repository and to install the headers
> > with a library.
> 
> Yes, that's fine LGPL 2.1 can be upgraded to GPL 2 or later
> 
> from the LGPL
>   3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General
> Public License instead of this License to a given copy of the
> Library.  To do this, you must alter all the notices that refer to
> this License, so that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public
> License, version 2, instead of to this License.  (If a newer version
> than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public License has
> appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you wish.) 
> Do not make any other change in these notices.
> 
> So just use the normal GPL header
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy

I'm not sure about the "install the headers with a library." part of 
Daniele's question. Install with what library? Do you just want to use 
the class internally? Or do you want to expose it in the interface of a 
library?


Regards,
Ingo

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