[kde-community] Licensing question with header-only libraries

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Jan 25 00:02:51 GMT 2016


On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:12:39 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>  inline functions and templates (ten or fewer lines in length),

The restriction pretty much sets header-only libraries of any value out of 
luck for this compliance.

C code usually has small functions and templates. Modern C++ code is usually 
template-heavy, with hundreds or thousands of lines of code. Or more.

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