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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: FW: Qicstable open source question
From:       Allen Winter <winterz () verizon ! net>
Date:       2004-07-07 18:08:20
Message-ID: 200407071408.21074.winterz () verizon ! net
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Mark,

I'm forwarding this discussion to the KDE license experts.  (Please CC Mark and I on responses).

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 01:51 pm, you wrote:
> Allen,
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. I read the page, but I'm a little confused here.
> Isn't Qt normally distributed under the GPL or QPL? Is that just a special
> case?
> 

If QicsTable source was integrated, it would have to go into kdelibs, and
the licensing requirement on kdelibs is LGPL, BSD, or X11.  With regards to
the fact that Qt isn't licensed that way... we'll have to ask the experts.

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Allen Winter" <winterz@verizon.net>
> To: "Mark Hatch" <mhatch@ics.com>
> Cc: "Laurie@Ics.Com" <laurie@ics.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: FW: Qicstable open source question
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 05:10 pm, Mark Hatch wrote:
> > > Allen,
> > >
> > > Sure, that would be fine (and really most excellent!)
> > >
> > > Alternatively, assuming your financial software is GPL, then you could
> just
> > > package it with your source and people could build it using a single
> > > automake.
> > >
> >
> > Mark, Laurie,
> >
> > I checked with the KDE developers and we can't accept the GPL QicsTable
> into
> > the code base because of the license.   All the code in the base libraries
> needs
> > to be LGPL or BSD or X11 licensed.  See this page for full details on KDE
> licensing policies:
> > http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html
> >
> > If I choose to use QicsTable in my program I will have to bundle the
> widget source
> > along with my application source.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> > -Allen
> >
> > >
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