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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: still more licensing concerns
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-04-25 19:39:32
Message-ID: 200404252139.33602.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Sunday 25 April 2004 21:23, Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I finally found out why I was under the impression
> that KOffice was licensed under GPL : the docs say so.
>
> Only Word mentions the (correct?) LGPL. I also noticed
> that this has been inserted in the docs by some sort
> of hack :
>
> <para>This program is licensed under the terms of the
> <ulink
>
> url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/library.html#SEC1">&GNU;
> Library General
> Public License v2</ulink>.</para>
>
> Normally KDE docs use a predefined entity like so :
>
> <!-- Determine which license your application is
> licensed under,
>      and delete all the remaining licenses below:
>
>      (NOTE:  All documentation are licensed under the
> FDL,
>      regardless of what license the application uses)
> -->
>
> &underGPL;        	 <!-- GPL License -->
> &underBSDLicense;        <!-- BSD License -->
> &underArtisticLicense;   <!-- BSD Artistic License -->
> &underX11License;        <!-- X11 License  -->
>
>
> I don't know if an entity has been created for LGPL.
>
> Anyway. If KOffice - all elements are LGPL perhaps we
> should ask Lauri to change this in the docs (or we
> could change it ourselves and notify her)?
>
> Perhaps there is a mixed situation, with some files
> being GPL? I don't know, I haven't looked yet...

Anyway KoText (lib/kotext) is (partially) under Qt's licenses, as the code 
comes from Qt. So you cannot really use a LGPL KWord.

>
> Regards
>
> Marc

Have a nice day!

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