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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KBabel/win32: GNU gettext license
From:       Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date:       2004-12-08 7:05:21
Message-ID: 200412081805.27121.bradh () frogmouth ! net
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:18 am, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> > 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 :-)
http://directory.fsf.org/gettext.html and the COPYING file that came with my 
copy of gettext-0.14 suggests that this is not the case.

A very clean solution would be if Qt got itself a gettext capability. Next 
best bet would be to get permission from the gettext authors - bad if they 
say no though. Other than that, it looks arguable either way.

Brad

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