<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>I know most people don't like licensing threads on this list (ergo, kde-licensing) so I will make it short: your analysis is flawed and the kdelibs licensing policy is correct. I'll follow up in private.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Andreas<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org><br>To: kde-core-devel@kde.org<br>Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:13:24 PM<br>Subject: Re: qt code in kdelibs?<br><br><div>On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:53:02AM -0700, Andreas Pour wrote:<br>> Aside from the noted problem with Apple<br>><br>that sh
ouldn't be an issue, as apple does not use kdecore anyway, no?<br>how could they use
kdelibs without a qt license otherwise, anyway?<br><br>> if you put any GPL code in kdelibs then all of kdelibs must be<br>> licensed under the GPL (under a common reading of the GPL)<br>><br>yes, the viral character.<br><br>if you use qt under gpl, kdelibs is already "infected" anyway, so it<br>would not matter.<br><br>> and a commercial Qt license would not help with that<br>><br>why? under these conditions no gpl code would be included in the first<br>place.<br><br>for my idea to work out, two conditions must be met:<br>- anybody being allowed to distribute the code in question without<br> actually granting a license to use it (other than gpl, that is). that<br> should be covered by the qpl/gpl+exception, no?<br>- buying a qt license would have to imply the right to use (older) qt<br> code "extracted" and distributed separately from the
purchased package.<br><br>> (in fact the commercial Qt license would probably not
even apply to<br>> the qringbuffer_p.h included in kdelibs).<br>><br>now that's the catch.<br>ultimately, this needs to be cleared up with tt legal, i guess.<br><br>-- <br>Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!<br>--<br>Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.<br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>