Fwd: Qhijri = QDate

[Andy Fawcett]

On Sunday 30 March 2003 15:49, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Content-Description: "Yousef AL-Harthi" <alharthi at kacst.edu.sa>:
> Qhijri = QDate
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am Yousef AL-Harthi from saudi arabia ,work in King Abdulaziz
> > City and Technology .
> >
> > We released engine for convert from hijri and gregorian and
> > reverse,it is approved in saudi arabia .
> >
> > Also we released Qhijri Class similer to QDate class in QT ,it is
> > support hijri calendar.
> >
> > It is under LGPL license ,you can get it from this links.
> >
> > We use this class and engine in KDE 3.0.0 ,it work very good and
> > you can see the snapshot for kde panel after i use the class and
> > engine.
> >
> > http://ceri.kacst.edu.sa/download/snapshot1.png
> >
> > QHijri Class :
> >
> > http://ceri.kacst.edu.sa/download/Qhijri-0.5.cpp
> >
> > Engine :
> >
> > http://ceri.kacst.edu.sa/download/hijrah-1.2.CPP
> >
> > I can send to you the file that i change it.(kdatepicker.cpp)
> >
> > We hope to see KDE support Hijri calendar and this is our effort.
>
> Hi Yousef!
> Firstly, thanks very much for your submission. This request was
> forwarded on to the core development list where I, among others, read
> it. Apparently, Hijri support was already added somewhere between 3.0
> and 3.1, so our current KDE versions already have it.
>
> Also, we unfortunately cannot put LGPL-licensed code in kdelibs - it
> must be GPLed. For something to go into Qt, it must be licensed under
> *both* the QPL and the GPL - the user picks which.

This is WRONG!

We do allow LGPL code in kdelibs, we don't allow GPL if I remember 
correctly.

A.


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