Source licenses and KAboutData.

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Dec 3 13:26:32 GMT 2007


On Monday 03 December 2007 03:14:09 Michael Pyne wrote:
> But KDE application
> developers can still release GPL v3 software so I think that's something we
> still need to take into account.  Of course they couldn't be GPLv3 and link
> against GPLv2 libraries but kdelibs is LGPL which is allowed.

They can release GPLv3 software, but no one is allowed to use or distribute it 
yet. So they can't place it on FTP servers that they don't own, etc.

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