[Kde-games-devel] Licensing for Gluon

Stefan Majewsky majewsky at gmx.net
Wed Jan 27 15:59:32 CET 2010


Am Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2010 12:33:14 schrieb Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen:
>   Currently, the Gluon codebase contains a number of different licenses,
> some of which i understand are incompatible with the KDE license policy.
> As such, a few of us decided (spurred on by troy) to launch this little
> discussion about the issue.

Could you please give an overview which licenses are currently used?

> P.S.: The issue here does not include that of games created using Gluon
> Creator: The reason for this is that they are irrelevant to this, since
> they are content, and as such licensed independently.

The license choice for Gluon _can_ limit the license choice for apps using 
Gluon. For example, GPL libraries may only be linked by GPL applications, 
while LGPL libraries allow any license for linking applications.

Greetings
Stefan
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