KDevPlatform Copyright

[Matt Rogers]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 04.06.07 16:34:06, Matt Rogers wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>
>>> On 04.06.07 22:37:01, Andras Mantia wrote:
>>>> On Monday 04 June 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't yet check, but in case any of the files in  
>>>>> kdevplatform/src
>>>>> contain non-LGPL copyrights do those need to be changed to LGPL?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, LGPL or something more liberal, but compatible with.
>>>>
>>>> There was a problem in the old KDevelop, because it contained code
>>>> from
>>>> Qt, hopefully it isn't present anymore (I'm just recompiling
>>>> everything
>>>> including the new kdevplatform).
>>>
>>> The qt designer contains code from Qt, basically because we need it,
>>> unless we want to reimplement that class which is hard without  
>>> looking
>>> at the original...
>>>
>>> BTW: KDevelop doesn't use the platform yet (thats why it still has
>>> lib/), porting everything at once doesn't seem a good idea, because
>>> its
>>> quite an effort and I'd have to ask people to not commit in the
>>> meantime...
>>
>> why don't you divide and conquer then and get people to help you port
>> it.
>
> Well, because I hope to do that locally on my harddrive without  
> breaking
> the compilation of KDevelop at all. Its not like its going to take  
> days,
> just that I need to do some other things on the side ;)
>
> Plus not many people are actively hacking atm.
>
> Andreas
>

There are at least three people working on summer of code projects.  
They can (and should) help since they are a part of the community.
--
Matt