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

Pam R pamroberts at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Dec 17 16:53:44 CET 2002


On Tuesday 17 December 2002 13:50, Frederik Fouvry wrote:

> | Maybe we need 2 entities, 'underLGPLV2' and 'underLesserGPL' ?
>
> I'd prefer only to add the Lesser GPL.  The Library GPL is
> obsolete according to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html, but
> of course I/we cannot stop authors from choosing any license they
> want to use.  If required, I'll add the Library GPL as well.
>
KWord uses the Library GPL v2, although for reasons of backwards compatibility 
it is probably better at the moment not to use an entity in the KWord doc but 
to spell it out in full?

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