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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: new KDE Licensing Draft
From:       Jonathan Riddell <jriddell () ubuntu ! com>
Date:       2007-10-19 14:30:10
Message-ID: 20071019143010.GA17824 () muse ! 19inch ! net
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:14:25PM +0200, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> I've had a short look at 
> 
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/Draft
> 
> and imho the "or a simple v2 or later" text should be "or licensed under GPL 
> v2 or later". 

What would that change?

> I think regarding the GPL section it should not allow v2 (only), but require 
> v2+. 

That's very much my objective.  I've only had one disagreement so far (thiago).

> As we can't use GPLv3 only right now due to Qt, maybe an additional 
> clause "the licensing has to be compatible with Qt free edition" would be an 
> idea. not sure if its a good one though. 

No, that would stop people taking code from KDE and using it in
entirely separate projects with no Qt dependency (or against Qt commercial).

Jonathan
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