From quanta-devel Wed Mar 16 22:22:56 2005 From: Ben Burton Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:22:56 +0000 To: quanta-devel Subject: [quanta-devel] Cervisia again, plus greater problems Message-Id: <20050316222256.GA25320 () eclipse ! debian ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta-devel&m=111101197821853 Hi, It's me writing about Cervisia licensing again. We still haven't heard back from Bernd Gehrmann at this stage, which means there's not really much that we can do. AFAICT he hasn't been around for a few years now; does anyone know of a way that we might be able to contact him? I've already tried a few other email addresses but to no avail. (For those who missed the initial post: http://lists.kde.org/?t=110929888600001&r=1&w=2 ) On further examination, there does also seem to be a greater worry regarding the QPL licensing, which is other GPLed applications that use cervisia. I had initially thought that this was not a problem, since the cvsservice that sits beneath cervisia is LGPLed (this is why I didn't mention this issue earlier). However, further examination shows that the cervisia kpart does in fact contain a fair amount of QPLed code. Given that the QPL is GPL-incompatible, this raises issues for GPLed programs that wish to use this kpart. I believe this at least includes quanta and kdevelop (unless I'm mistaken). It would seem to me then that the current options are: (i) try harder to get in touch with Bernd Gehrmann, or (ii) alter the kdevelop and quanta licenses to explicitly allow use of the QPLed cervisia part. Though IMHO (i) would be preferable, since (ii) involves many more people and still raises issues for any other GPLed code that kdevelop and/or quanta might be linked with. CCing the kdevelop and kdewebdev lists also. Ben. _______________________________________________ quanta-devel mailing list quanta-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta-devel