[Kde-bindings] license question

[Marcus]

Why do language bindings have to be GPL, but KDE's libraries are LGPL?


On Monday 19 December 2005 1:58 pm, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2005 18:58, Thomas Moenicke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > are there any risks known if such a kde/qt language binding would be
> > distributed under the LGPL license? All bindings I have seen are under
> > GPL. Does it has a reason or is it just chance?
>
> No, language bindings have to be GPL'd. But you can dual license it so that
> holders of commercial licenses can do commercial things with it if you want
> (eg an MIT license).