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

[Dominique Devriese]

Jason Harris writes:

> On Sunday 18 April 2004 11:14 am, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> 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 ?
>>
> An alternative might be to redo these classes as actual inherited
> subclasses of the Qt counterparts, rather than cut-n-paste rewrites:

> class ExtDate : public QDate {
> 	...
> };

True.

> That's how many KDE classes with Qt counterparts (KLineEdit,
> KMainWindow, etc) are done.  Definitely more elegant, and it would
> allow for the LGPL.  (Actually, it's an interesting question to ask
> whether KMainWindow constitutes a "derived work" of QMainWindow.  It
> definitelty hooks into the Qt API, and clearly classes like
> KMainWindow would be useless without Qt.  So I guess I don't
> understand how KMainWindow can be LGPL'd, 

Yeah, I agree.

> but if they can do it that way, I suppose we can too.).

Indeed.

cheers
domi