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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Relicensing another author's work
From:       Sune Vuorela <nospam () vuorela ! dk>
Date:       2009-06-13 17:42:00
Message-ID: slrnh37p78.720.nospam () sshway ! ssh ! pusling ! com
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On 2009-06-13, Michael Howell <mhowell123@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 12 June 2009 09:27:02 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>> Does this mean that any program that uses, say KFileDialog, can't link
>> to it, since it may be linked to libsmb to view samba folders or
>> something?

You can investigate it wether it links to it. ldd -r is quiteee simple
for that.

> Nope.
>
> The GPL only applies to distribution. The only time libsmb has anything to > do 
> with your program is after it is already distributed. Your program is not a> 
> "derived work" of libsmb; it contains no part of it.

BUt your application is a derived work of libraries it uses, and if
libraries it uses uses something gplv3, then you have to accept that
license as well, if you want anyone to distribute binaries of your
application.

And KDE wants people to distribute binaries.

/sune


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