[Kde-hardware-devel] HUPnP and libsolid Licenses - Would be it a problem?

[Paulo Rômulo]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Armijn Hemel <armijn at uulug.nl> wrote:

> hi,
>
> > Since HUPnP is distributed under a GPLv3 license and libsolid (and
> > Qt/KDE as well) is LGPL, this license "incompatibility" wouldn't be a
> > problem for us? I'm not a license expert, but AFAIK, if a given
> > library made under LGPL uses another library distributed under GPL
> > this makes the first (in our case Solid library) to become GPL, right?
>
> No.
>

As I said, I'm not a license expert. Sorry for the ignorance.


>
> >  Assuming that it's not a desired consequence, could Tuomo change
> > HUPnP license to LGPL?
>
> Sigh. Step away from the keyboard *NOW* before any of you makes a big
> (licensing) mistake.
>

Ok, calm down. That's exactly what we want to avoid. ;-)


> First of all, *which* LGPL are you talking about? LGPLv2.1 or LGPLv3?
> They are not compatible. Mixing GPLv3 code with LGPLv2.1: no go. Mixing
> GPLv2 code with LGPLv3: no go. Just don't do it (or at least: don't
> distribute it).
>

HUPnP is GPLv3. Solid (as all kdelibs) is LGPLv2.1.


> Before you ask for license changes, please contact the legal dude at KDE
> e.V. first to see which licenses are OK and which are not. The legal
> dude is Adriaan de Groot and he is on this list AFAIK. Or, better, mail
> KDE e.V. about this: ev at kde.org
>
>
I think I'm not asking for any KDE license change, since HUPnP is not a
project under KDE umbrella AFAIK.

armijn
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