License change in kdepim

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Wed Mar 3 10:58:41 GMT 2004


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On Wed March 3 2004 09:42, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> The reason for doing this is two fold: First, there is a growing amount of
> people who use the commercial Qt for Linux and that is not compatible
> with the GPL - mostly this is because having two Qt installations for GPL
> and non-GPL apps is just silly since it's the same code anyway.

Multiple licenses can apply to the same code base, you don't need to have two 
copies in order to use two different licenses.

> When kdelibs did the big license change back
> several years ago, the respondent count was at around 80%.

Which license change are you talking about? I can't remember one.

Cheers,
Waldo
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