kdelibs/klauncher license question

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quinta-feira 19 Fevereiro 2009, às 12:50:45, David Faure escreveu:
> On the other hand, kdeinit forks and dlopens KDE code, but so what? It's
> just one way to start KDE apps, it doesn't change the fact that you can use
> the app normally without kdeinit (so the app isn't "tainted" in that case).
>
> > So is this something  
> > that is wrong, technically correct but undesired, or desired licensing?
> > (The other files in klauncher are licensed LGPL...)?
>
> I don't think the notion of undesired or desired or mistake enters the
> picture at all, this code is GPL, that's a fact we can't change.
> On the other hand it's buggy (I'm getting loads of valgrind warnings as
> soon as kdeinit does a getenv) so maybe we have to rewrite it anyway ;-)

I don't see a problem even if we consider kdeinit forks and dlopens an 
application's module.

If someone has a problem with that with their GPL-incompatible application, 
then it's their problem. All they have to do is not make a kdeinit 
application. In other words, if you're GPL compatible, you can benefit from 
KDE's library preloading :-)

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