On Monday, 2013-08-12, Ryan Bramantya wrote: > GNOME and KDE licensed their component mostly in GPL, so people who avoid > GPL (for whatever reason) will look for alternative desktop environment > that fit they needs.
For KDE it depends on the type of component. All things that are part of the platform are LGPL, BSD or MIT licensed, only end user applications are often GPL licensed. See http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy Basic rule of thumb: anything a developer might use -> LGPL, anything only a user would use -> GPL Of course there are exceptions, e.g. application speciifc library that its author wants to be GPL or application code being LGPL because the author plans on making it a library, etc. Cheers, Kevin -- -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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