[Kstars-devel] KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars

[Jasem Mutlaq]

On Sunday 11 November 2007 10:13:42 pm Jason Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 11 November 2007 11:41:21 am Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> > > I need to remove ExtDate because it's based on Qt-3.x code, which is
> > > necessarily licensed under GPL v2 only.  KDE is migrating to GPL v3,
> > > which is not compatible with GPL v2.
> >
> > What does it mean for those of us who don't want to move to GPL v3?
>
> If your GPL v2 license is unmodified (i.e., it contains the phrase "(at
> your option) any later version"), then there's no problem.  The
> incompatibility arises if you've modified the license so that only GPL v2
> is allowed.

That's alright then. I was afraid we would have to release the source code as 
GPL v3 only (or GPL v.3 or later). With the headers unchanged, the user can 
decide which license to pick. INDI will remain the same, LGPL v2.1 or later.

Jasem