Cervisia again, plus greater problems
Ben Burton
bab at debian.org
Thu Mar 17 00:08:14 GMT 2005
Hi Andras -- thanks very much for your response.
Just a technical clarification:
> I don't think that using a GPL incompatible KPart in a GPL application
> is a problem. It may be at the corner case, but this is more like
> writing a GPL frontend to a non-GPL application.
I believe the problem is that the KPart is essentially dlopened, which
means it is considered an extension of the larger program (in this case,
quanta).
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins
> Using the Cervisia DCOP services which requires inclusion and link
> against it might be real problem though,
If I understand DCOP correctly, this is not a problem since the
cvsservice and quanta run as separate programs, merely communicating
through some form of socket-based mechanism. At any rate, it wouldn't
be a problem anyway since the cvsservice (both the server and the client
library) are LGPLed (unlike the cervisia kpart).
Ben.
(Fixing the kdevelop-devel address also, which was incorrect in my
initial post.)
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