[kde-doc-english]KOffice: GPL vs. LGPL

Frederik Fouvry fouvry at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE
Tue Dec 17 14:45:54 CET 2002


,-- On Mon, 16 Dec, Pam R. wrote:
| 
| I've just noticed that according to their About dialog boxes (and the source 
| files), most KOffice apps are licensed under the LGPL not GPL, but the 
| documentation the Credits & Licenses sections say GPL.
| 
| So if no one has any objections I'll go through the KOffice docs tomorrow and 
| change them as needed in HEAD.
| 
| One minor problem is that we don't have an entity '&underLGPL;' and although 
| perhaps one should be added, I think that it would cause a lot of annoyance 
| to people trying to build Koffice from cvs if it were suddenly used in the 
| KOffice docs at this stage, particularly as KOffice at the moment can be 
| built against KDE 3.0 as well as 3.1/cvs.
| 
| So I'll simply replace the line
| 	&underGPL;        	 <!-- GPL License -->
| with
| <para>This program is licensed under the terms of the <ulink
| url="common/lgpl-license.html">GNU Lesser General Public 
| License</ulink>.</para>

I added the entity (&underLGPL;).  I have not updated the
languages other than English, though, so it's probably wiser not
to use it yet ...  (And then there's also the issue of backwards
compatibility.)

Frederik




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