kdelibs and the GPL

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Mon Jun 17 18:23:33 BST 2002


On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Thomas Zander wrote:

> it would be a nice thing for companies to code against the kdelibs under the
> LGPL licence instead of the GPL.  But your email suggest KDE is violating some
> copyrights, am I missing something?

The reason is that kdelibs has to be under LGPL or more liberal, according 
to KDE ethics. 


Dirk




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