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List:       kde-edu
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu]: ExtDate license problem
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-11-09 18:23:24
Message-ID: 200711091923.24707.aacid () kde ! org
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A Divendres 09 Novembre 2007, Jason Harris va escriure:
> Hello,
>
> I have been planning to migrate away from ExtDate, to be replaced with
> KDateTime.  I was going to postpone this until after the 4.0 release, but
> it looks like I'll need to do it now.
>
> The code in extdatetime.[h|cpp] is modified from Qt 3.x QDateTime sources,
> so it is necessarily licensed under GPL v2 only.  This is incompatible with
> GPL v3, to which KDE is migrating because of upstream libraries (so I
> gather), among other reasons.
>
> KStars is the only program still making use of ExtDate stuff[1], so once I
> migrate to KDateTime, I can 'svn rm libkdeedu/extdate'.  The only
> regression is that users will not be able to set the date to before year
> -4712 (with ExtDate you could go back to -50000 or so).  Probably, almost
> no one will notice, and this can be re-extended in KStars for 4.1.
>
> Objections?  Discussion?

You are using, so to me it's your decision.

Albert

>
> regards,
> Jason
>
> [1]: http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=&string=ExtDate
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