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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Does KDE want to limit or destroy its commercial acceptance?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-30 10:37:31
Message-ID: 200312301137.32842.bastian () kde ! org
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On Mon December 29 2003 22:49, Paul Hampson wrote:
> "..the KDE project does not mandate any single Open Source license as long
> as the license is Open Source. By far, the most common license for the KDE
> libraries is LGPL, and the most common for applications is GPL. Code that
> we may explicitly want people to incorporate into (possibly closed-source)
> applications may use other licenses."
>
> Particularly note this line: "Code that we may explicitly want people to
> incorporate into (possibly closed-source) applications may use other
> licenses."
>
> That statement seems very weird to me. It seems to deny development of
> proprietary software without the express permission of the KDE community.

I think you misunderstand. KDE Libraries are in general LGPL. Closed source 
proprietary software can use such libraries by dynamically linking with them 
(See the license text for details). In some situations we have technology 
that we think should have even less restrictions, examples of that are for 
example the API for the NETWM window manager specification and the desktop 
communication protocol DCOP. Such technology is licensed under a very 
permissive "take what you want, just leave the copyright in" license.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org -=|[ KDE: K Desktop for the Enterprise ]|=- bastian@suse.com
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