KDateTime: revised version

[David Jarvie]

On Monday 21 Nov 2005 13:15, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> 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.

Evidently I'll have to write something myself instead, and not use the Qt 
code.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html