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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/libkonq
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-11-21 19:50:54
Message-ID: 200411212050.57126.faure () kde ! org
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On Sunday 21 November 2004 19:10, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:18, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 November 2004 15:55, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > Class separated from iconviewwidget. See also #93494
> > >
> > >
> > >   A            konq_filetip.cc   1.1 [GPL (v2+)]
> > >   A            konq_filetip.h   1.1 [GPL (v2+)]
> >
> > Please relicense to LGPL or equivalent or remove it from this library.

Why? There is nothing wrong with GPL code in libraries, especially out of kdelibs.
libkonq mostly exists for sharing code between konqiconview, konqlistview and kdesktop,
and the three of those are GPL - so why should the code they share be forced to be LGPL?

Take e.g. konqdrag: Reggie wrote it as part of konqiconview, initially, which is GPL. 
Why should I have to rewrite it, just to be able to share it with another piece of GPL code?

Check kdepim/libkdepim for another example of a library with GPL and LGPL code.

> I'm not the original author. It is code which was previously included in 
> konq_iconwievwidget (from there I copied the license part).
> I just adapted the code.
Yep.

> What shall I do now ?
Nothing :)

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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