Fwd: Skrooge requires libqca2-plugin-ossl for saving files

Guillaume DE BURE <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:41:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi guys,

Some friendly guy from Ubuntu tells me I have a licensing issue : Skrooge (licensed under the GPL) being linked to QCA OSSL seems to require specific notes in the licence.

Any advice on that ?

Thanks in advance,

Guillaume

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Sujet : Re: [User Information] Skrooge requires libqca2-plugin-ossl for saving files
Date : vendredi 12 novembre 2010, 17:10:28
De : Rohan Garg <[email protected]>
À :  Guillaume DE BURE <[email protected]>
CC :  [email protected]

Hi
Please look at [1]
[1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
Regards
Rohan Garg



On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Guillaume DE BURE <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 14:28:42, [email protected] a écrit :
> > rohangarg sent a message using the contact form at
> > http://skrooge.org/contact.
> >
> > Hi
> Hi Rohan
>
> > When you try and save a file from skrooge and libqca2-plugin-ossl isnt
> > installed, skrooge complains about saving the file.
> Yes, Skrooge needs QCA OSSL for file encryption.
>
> > Since Skrooge is a GPL
> > project it shouldnt depend on libqca2-plugin-ossl
> I'm not sure I understand this part, why is this an issue ? QCA OSSL is
> released under the LGPL licence...
>
> Guillaume
>
>
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> http://skrooge.org
>

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