KLook: are GPLv3 libraries acceptable for KDE?

Jack Hill jackhill3103 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 14:26:08 GMT 2023


On Friday, 27 October 2023 16:28:18 GMT you wrote:
> https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> 
> LGPL compatible licence is needed for Frameworks etc, to quote from
> above "*Source
> files* that are part of a library with a public API which is part of the
> KDE Platform (kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kde-runtime and KDE Frameworks)".
> 
> But if it's a standalone library that's fine to be GPL, it's up to the apps
> to make sure they're happy with that restriction/protection and most will
> be.
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Thanks, I'll leave it as GPLv3 then.

Jack




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