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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: mimelib licenses
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-11-05 11:16:32
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On Tuesday November 05, 2002 03:22, ante wrote:
> There is a policy for KDE sources,
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/policy.html ,a quote:
>
> ""
> 3) Source files that are part of a library in kdelibs must be licensed
> under the terms of any of the following licenses:
>
>   *) LGPL as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.LIB
>   *) BSD license as listed below.
>   *) X11 license as listed below.
> ""
>
> The reason for this is that the LGPL, other than the GPL, allows non GPL
> software to use it. So, the lib still does not comply... It should be
> LGPL, or one of the other two.

mimelib is not in kdelibs, though.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your
Friends'." - Benjamin Franklin
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