[Kstars-devel] Re: kdeedu/libkdeedu [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]

[Dominique Devriese]

Jason Harris writes:

> On Sunday 18 April 2004 05:43 am, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> If you intend to add it to kdelibs, you should make sure all the
>> files are properly licensed under the LGPL, the GPL is forbidden by
>> KDE policy in kdelibs.  At least the file extdatetime.h is under
>> the GPL currently.

> Thanks for pointing this out.  It is a problem since that file is
> derived from Qt's (QPL'd/GPL'd) qdatetime.h.  GPL sec. 2b says that
> derived works must be licensed under the GPL.  The QPL has similar
> language restricting derived works to the QPL.

Sorry to be the annoying license guy :)

> So I don't see a way to LGPL extdatetime.(h|cpp), unfortunately.
> The same applies to extdatetimeedit.(h|cpp).

K, I see.  Maybe you can ask TrollTech whether you can redistribute it
under the LGPL, or perhaps they might accept your code in Qt itself ?
Or perhaps you could replace the GPL code ?

cheers
domi