On Dec 9, 2012 11:24 PM, "Kevin Krammer" <kram...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Sunday, 2012-12-09, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > Hi Yogesh, > > > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Yogesh Marwaha > <yogeshm....@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have incorporated parts of source code from KDE software in my software > > > as > > > per following: - > > > > KDE softwares' source code are usually licensed as GPL, which means that if > > you copy KDE source code, you must license your software as GPL as well. > > Read http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html for more info. > > Depends. Each file usually says which licence it is under in its header. > For example libraries are often not licenced under GPL but LGPL, MIT or BSD. > > > > i) I've copied one function (5-6 lines) which is used as it was. > > > ii) I've copied one class from old release (KDE3) and made few changes; > > > mostly > > > port to Qt4. > > > The question is, how do I give due credit to the developers and mention > > > details like license? > > > Is mentioning copyright-year-developer name enough? > > > > As I mentioned above, you have to make your source code released as GPL (or > > as some people say, Open Source it). So as long as you adhere to the > > license, you don't have to give credit as such. > > As mentioned above it is not required to release your code under GPL licence, > but your licence needs to be compatible with the terms of the licence of the > code you are using (which could be GPL but could be any of a couple of > others). > > As far as attribution goes, a lot of those licences require appropriate > attribution. Which is usually satisfied by copying the Copyright line(s) of the > original authors, but could require copying the licence header if your licence > is different (but compatible) the one being used by the original code. That's where i'm confused. Even for one function of 5-6 lines, I assume I'll have to include license part also. Then where do I include it begining of file or begining of function? > > Cheers, > Kevin > > Cheers, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer > KDE user support, developer mentoring > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << > Thanks,
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