kdelibs and the GPL

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Mon Jun 17 19:01:38 BST 2002


On Monday 17 June 2002 10:05 am, Thomas Zander wrote:
> The reasoning as to _why_ this is a problem would be nice to hear.  I'm
> sure it would be a nice thing for companies to code against the kdelibs
> under the LGPL licence instead of the GPL.  

Its a problem because it violates KDEs licensing policy 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/policy.html

> But your email suggest KDE is violating some copyrights, am I missing
> something?

Enough sleep? Maybe you read what you want to read but there is nothing in 
that email that suggests that.

Cheers,
Waldo
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