LGPL for Breeze QStyle and qtquickcontrols?

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue May 17 16:47:16 UTC 2016


On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is relicensing Breeze QStyle to LGPL from GPL for possible and acceptable?
> I've found cases when bits of the code beyond QStyle/KStyle API need
> to be reused. One example is: custom widgets.
> If we're considering Breeze QStyle as implementation of certain
> artwork, and KDE artwork in general would be LGPL also for
> consistency.
> For example wallpapers, icons are LGPL.
>
> Similarly I can only deduce that breeze/qtquickcontrols/* is GPL now,
> it's not clear in breeze.git. The same question here: can it be LGPL
> or BSD?
>
> Bottom line is: if we want to popularise our frameworks in the outside world...

To sum up, is the discussion whether Breeze QML Style would make sense
to distribute with 3rd party applications? Or all Breeze assets?

Aleix


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