On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:41:47PM +0000, Daniel Glassey wrote: > It's a pain bringing this up again (KDE and stuff), but it would be useful > to know what the position on kde-libs (for KDE 2)is. > > If the licensing is ok and someone will maintain it, will it be allowed into > woody so that other apps that use it, qt and have the qt exception to the > GPL could be included as well. > > >From the README of the first beta kde-libs-1.90: > > 'Licensing > ----------- > The libraries themselves have been covered (since Saturday, June 21st, 1997) > by the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).
The libraries themselves are OK. > Any other programs (such as the examples) are covered by the GNU > General Public License (GPL). Any other programs (such as examples) are not ok, unless they have the qt exception. > All the gory details for the LGPL reside in COPYING.LIB, and for the > GPL reside in COPYING. > > Various parts are also covered under a BSD style license, detailed in > COPYING.BSD. Currently, code covered under such license is copyrighted by > Theo de Raadt.' This last bit doesn't change anything. > Is this includable? You might need to do a bit of work (getting the qt exception approved by whoever is appropriate) before including the programs. -- Raul
