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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: Okay to Use KHTMLWidget?
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-02-11 13:31:28
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Quang Ngo wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm writing an HTML viewer to display help for a commercial product for
> Linux.  Something like Kdehelp is what I'm looking for, but statically
> compiled so that it doesn't depend on KDE libs.  I was wondering if it's
> okay (legally) if I use the KHTMLWidget class in my own version of help
> viewer.

The KHTMLwidget is released under the LGPL, so if you link it statically, 
you also must provide your app as a set of object files that allow the 
user to replace that widget. Shouldn't be terribly hard.

You could provide a html.o and therest.a, for example.

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