DRAFT document on coding conventions in kde libraries

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Mar 6 20:38:16 GMT 2006


On Sunday 05 March 2006 11:19, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
>  QPL and Artistic are not GPL-compatible, so we start again the license
>  discussion, as with CPL.

as understand it: this is fine for applications, however, that are linking to 
our LGPL'd libs or Qt under the QPL. it's a bit different with the CPL which 
was about a library under that license that applications would then link to.

>  So no new KDE4 application should use such licenses (or any other
>  non-GPL-compatible license).

it should be discouraged, i think, simply from the license proliferation 
perspective.

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