Amarok 2 scripting license requirements

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Myriam Schweingruber
<myriam.schweingruber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Harley,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 20:51, Harley Laue <losinggeneration at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On, http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/Scripting_HowTo_2.0 it's indicated
>> that because of Qt 4.4's GPL requirement for derived projects that the script
>> must also be GPL. This, as many of you know, has changed in Qt 4.5 which
>> allows LGPL. Should that bottom legal portion be changed now? At the very
>> least, if it's decided that because Amarok is GPL, and that scripts are
>> derived work, that they must be GPL too. It should be expressed that because
>> as such, and not because of Qt's license requirements.
>
> First of all, IANAL, but consider the following points:
>
> * Amarok still depends on KDE 4.2, hence Qt 4.4

^^ is why I haven't bothered to change it.

And the fact that they have to use GPL anyways due to running
in-process in Amarok while using Amarok APIs. Or maybe not sure. :)
Its all academic until we deprecated Qt 4.4 support.

Ian