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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: licenses
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-08-22 19:08:01
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On Thursday August 22, 2002 12:05, ante wrote:
> Well, I'm no develloper, so I do not have a habit of patching. I did
> make a new version. In it I changed the artistic to the clarified
> artistic.
>
> Also, I added the line:
> "Note there is a new version of the LGPL, version 2.1."
>
> To make this complete, a few more things should be done (imho).
>
> 1 To kdelibs/licenses both the LGPL version 2.1 (LGPL_V2.1) and the
> Clarified Artistic license (CLARIFIED ARTISTIC) should be added.
>
> 2 There is an other LGPL in cvs, kdelibs/copying.lib. Unless there are
> reasons not to do this, it can be updated to  lgpl version 2.1.

We can't remove the LGPL version 2.  There is a significant amount of code 
in KDE that uses that license.  Some people reject the LGPL 2.1, and won't 
ever use it.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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