From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 07 20:18:13 2004
From: Eva Brucherseifer <eva.brucherseifer () basyskom ! de>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:18:13 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KBabel/win32: GNU gettext license
Message-Id: <200412072118.14542.eva.brucherseifer () basyskom ! de>
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Am Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2004 12:15 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
> GNU gettext is provided under the GPL. But we've used the sources in
> desdk/kbabel/common/libgettext/.
> KBabel is GPLed too, but recently we're adding an license exception to be
> able to deliver KBabel/win32 compiled with commercial Qt/win32 as many
> people asked. AFAIK, virually all KBabel authors agree on the exception,
> but I am not sure about status of source code in
> kdesdk/kbabel/common/libgettext/.
>
> The funny thing is that gettext already links to non-GPL library, 'msvcrt',
> within Cygwin project and similar efforts:
>
> http://gettext.sourceforge.net/
>
> GPL license allows to link with nonGPL runtime libraries shipped with
> compiler. That's unclear because we can pretty well consider unmodified Qt
> as an runtime. 'Where's the boundary?' question looks like a philosophical
> issue for me.


gettext ist LGPL and not GPL, so no problem here :-)

Greetings,
eva