KDateTime: revised version

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Monday 21 November 2005 13:27, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Monday 21 Nov 2005 06:47, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Monday 21 November 2005 03:14, David Jarvie wrote:
> > > Attached is revised code for a new KDateTime class. There are various
> > > minor changes in response to comments.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Just one thing I noticed while skimming over the patch:
> >
> > [ snip ]
> > /************************************************************************
> >** ** ?**
> > ?** DateTimeParser and FormatSection classes are based on QDateTime
> > internals: ?**
> > ?** Copyright (C) 1992-2005 Trolltech AS. All rights reserved.
> > ?**
> > ?** This file is part of the QtCore module of the Qt Toolkit.
> > ?**
> > ?** This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public
> > ?** License version 2.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation
> > ?** and appearing in the file LICENSE.GPL included in the packaging of
> > ?** this file. ?Please review the following information to ensure GNU
> > ?** General Public Licensing requirements will be met:
> > ?** http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/opensource.html
> > [ snip ]
> >
> > This means the code cannot be included in kdelibs unless we change your
> > licensing policy.
>
> I'm not sure whether we need to mention the Qt licence stuff for the parts
> lifted from Qt. The main thing seems to be that it stipulates the use of
> GPL version 2 (and no other version). Can we remove the Qt licence
> declaration and still comply with their licensing requirements?

Qt is code is GPL (or the other Qt licenses). So it is not compatible with the 
licenses required for code being in kdelibs.

Leaving out the copyright does not change the fact about Qt's license.

Have a nice day!