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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kio licenses
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       2000-03-29 7:53:38
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Harri Porten wrote:

> > > > Also, how should we license the io slaves?  They are libraries now,
> > > > right?  So LGPL?
> > >
> > > kio_smb can link with Samba-tng, which is GPL. So at least this one should
> > > remain GPL.
> > 
> > I do not see your reasoning because LGPL is of course compatible with GPL.
> 
> Sure ? If I understood Nicolas' statement correctly kio_smb can NOT be
> LGPL'ed without an explicit permissions from Samba-tng's author(s).

Well, I am reading about linking not about derived code.
Nicolas: Please explain the situation.

Yours,
-- martin

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