Making snapshots of qt-copy
Scott Wheeler
wheeler at kde.org
Mon Oct 21 13:12:29 BST 2002
Quoting Simon Hausmann <hausmann at kde.org>:
> I don't think that's a problem, we use Qt under the terms of the
> GPL, don't we?
No, not in all cases. There are several parts of KDE outside of the libs that use GPL
incompatible, yet QPL compatible licenses.
For instance Noatun is under a BSD license, which can't link to GPL'ed libs. I know that
some of the Noatun plugins are under an Artistic license. There are other places in KDE
that require a QPL'ed Qt, but the Noatun examples are just the ones that come to mind.
So to preserve the ability to treat Qt as something licenesed under the QPL, we must
distribute it in a form compatible with the QPL.
Cheers,
-Scott
More information about the kde-core-devel
mailing list