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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: kspread : digest.h and digest.cc - possible licence issue
From:       Peter Simonsson <psn () linux ! se>
Date:       2004-04-21 16:35:44
Message-ID: 200404211834.58590.psn () linux ! se
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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 16:23, Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> --- Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org> wrote:
> > If you copy (which this very clearly is) then you
> > apparently can choose
> > which license to use. I suggest to only leave the
> > LGPL in there and remove
> > the other option.
>
> Yes, we could do that but my problem is with the
> following lines from the KDE Licencing Policies (see
> http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html)
>
>
> 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.
>
> 4) Any other source files must be licensed under the
> terms of one of the
> licenses listed under 3) or any of the following
> licenses:
>
>   *) GPL as listed in kdelibs/COPYING
>   *) QPL as listed below.
>   *) MIT license as listed below.
>   *) Artistic license as listed below.
>
> END QUOTE
>
> As digest.h and digest.cc fall under 'other source
> files' LGPL is (strictly) not possible.
>
Yes it is, read again what youself quoted. 4) says licensed under one of the 
licenses under 3) or one of the following... Not that it must be one of the 
following.

> I think that the rule was put there to prevent the
> commercial use -without revealing sourves- of KDE
> applications. Nobody is going to be interested in
> taking digest.* out of its context and using it in
> this way, but strictly speaking we should take this up
> with whoever wrote those policies and ask for clearer
> rules.

- -- 
LLaP
Peter Simonsson

Kivio - http://www.koffice.org/kivio/
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