<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>Sorry if this has been answered - no you cannot put *any* GPL code in kdelibs! Aside from the noted problem with Apple and also of kde apps licensed under non-GPL licenses, if you put any GPL code in kdelibs then all of kdelibs must be licensed under the GPL (under a common reading of the GPL) and a commercial Qt license would not help with that (in fact the commercial Qt license would probably not even apply to the qringbuffer_p.h included in kdelibs).<br><br>Thus you would prevent any proprietary KDE applications.<br><br><span>This is why we have the kde library licensing policy. See <a target="_blank"
href="http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html">http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html</a></span><br><br>Ciao,<br><br>Andreas<br><br> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Robert Knight <robertknight@gmail.com><br>To: kde-core-devel@kde.org<br>Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:22:43 AM<br>Subject: Re: qt code in kdelibs?<br><br><div>> to use kdelibs you<br>> must already have a valid qt licence anyway<br><br>Unless of course you are Apple.<br><br>On 21/05/07, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org> wrote:<br>> hi,<br>><br>> i'm wondering whether it would be possible to include an entire file<br>> from qt (qringbuffer_p.h) into kdelibs. of course the initial reaction<br>> is no - we cannot include gpl code. hooowever ... to use kdelibs you<br>> must already h
ave a valid qt licence anyway, so putting this code into<br>> kdelibs would not put
additional restrictions on the use of kdelibs. as<br>> the file would be preserved verbatim (sans some bugs ;), there would be<br>> no danger of license mixup, either.<br>><br>> thoughts?<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>><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>