KShred / artistic license in kdelibs

Roberto H. Alsina ralsina at kde.org
Sat Nov 9 16:55:16 GMT 2002


On Sat, Nov 09 2002 at 05:55:59pm +0100, Tim Jansen wrote:
> Hi..
> 
> I just discovered that the files kio/kio/kshred.* in kdelibs are under the 
> artistic license, at least that's what the header says. According to the FSF 
> the old artistic license is not GPL-compatible. 

Why would that be a problem? Is it linked to anything GPLd?
Notice that Qt's QPL is compatible with the AL.

> 
> So shouldn't it either be re-licensed or removed?
> 
> bye...
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