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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: [Uml-devel] branches/KDE/3.5/kdesdk/umbrello
From:       Jonathan Riddell <jr () jriddell ! org>
Date:       2005-08-03 16:09:10
Message-ID: 20050803160910.GM7789 () airtin
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:58:33PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 16:35, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > Jonathan Riddell (Wednesday 03 of August 2005 11:51):
> > > > It was added, then it was pointed out that we can't link to graphviz
> > > > since it's not got a GPL compatible licence.  So I've disabled it and
> > > > I'll talk to the author to see if it can still be used at all (e.g. by
> > > > calling the program as a separate process).  Otherwise it'll have to
> > > > be removed
> > >
> > > You might consider to add a clause allowing umbrello to link to CPL
> > > providing all umbrello authors agree.
> >
> > Still leaves kdelibs and Qt as GPL.
> 
> An LGPL or BSD plugin interface allows even closed source plugins, so it 
> should surely allow CPL licensed code. Just make sure the plugin interface 
> itself is a shared library of its own that doesn't link against Qt and has a 
> license free enough to link against both GPL code and CPL code since both 
> modules will be using it. That should yield better performance than spawning 
> child processes.

Do you know of any examples of this?

Jonathan Riddell
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