[kde-edu]: extdate library licensing

Jason Harris kstars at 30doradus.org
Sat Dec 24 15:25:19 CET 2005


Hello,

These classes are not LGPL because they were originally modified copies of Qt 
classes (QDateTime and QDateTimeEdit), as you can see in the header comment 
block in extdatetimeedit.h

Jason

On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:08, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi, i've been having a look at extdata licensing and all the files say they
> are LGPL except extadatetime.[cpp|h] and extdatetimeedit.[cpp|h] that say
> they are GPL.
>
> IMHO it would make sense to change those files to LGPL also to have a fully
> LGPL library.
>
> Headers and commiters say people with copyright in those files are
> Michel Guitel
> Jason Harris
> Pino Toscano
> Adriaan de Groot
> Stephan Kulow
> Laurent Montel
> Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> Dirk Mueller
>
> I think noone of them (except maybe Michel Guitel who i don't know) will
> object in the change.
>
> Do you think it's worth taking this path?
>
> Albert

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