kdelibs and the GPL

[Rolf Magnus]

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 09:53, Martin Konold wrote:

> > Library GPL is the old term. Now LGPL means Lesser GPL. So please revert
> > those changes.
>
> We intentionaly chose LGPL in order to attract also developers of
> proprietary applications in order to gain applications which integrate well
> in KDE. IMHO "Lesser" is more a political statement than a technical term.

It's a fact that the license was officially renamed to "Lesser" GPL, and so 
there cannot be any discussion about how we name it. It's not about technical 
vs. political, but wrong vs. correct.