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Subject: [Kstars-devel] Re: kdeedu/libkdeedu [POSSIBLY UNSAFE]
From: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date: 2004-04-18 18:49:54
Message-ID: 87brlp2ka5.fsf () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be
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Jason Harris writes:
> On Sunday 18 April 2004 11:14 am, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> K, I see. Maybe you can ask TrollTech whether you can redistribute
>> it under the LGPL, or perhaps they might accept your code in Qt
>> itself ? Or perhaps you could replace the GPL code ?
>>
> An alternative might be to redo these classes as actual inherited
> subclasses of the Qt counterparts, rather than cut-n-paste rewrites:
> class ExtDate : public QDate {
> ...
> };
True.
> That's how many KDE classes with Qt counterparts (KLineEdit,
> KMainWindow, etc) are done. Definitely more elegant, and it would
> allow for the LGPL. (Actually, it's an interesting question to ask
> whether KMainWindow constitutes a "derived work" of QMainWindow. It
> definitelty hooks into the Qt API, and clearly classes like
> KMainWindow would be useless without Qt. So I guess I don't
> understand how KMainWindow can be LGPL'd,
Yeah, I agree.
> but if they can do it that way, I suppose we can too.).
Indeed.
cheers
domi
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