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Subject: Re: [kde-community] Tupi: Open 2D Magic
From: Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cordlandwehr () kde ! org>
Date: 2013-06-23 12:12:53
Message-ID: 4837705.hlBoXtyvJe () sooner
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On Sunday 23 June 2013 14:03:46 Adrián Chaves Fernández
wrote:
> By the way, is there any known explanation why a KDE project
cannot use only
> a GPL license higher than 3? Why is GPLv2 mandatory?
AFAIK this shall allow contributors to work at the KDE codebase
without much thinking about license problems. For example,
mixing (or even linking) GPL v2-only with GPL v3-only code
guides to an application that you cannot legally distribute.
Hence, having all code compatible with GPL v2 provides a
common compatibility level for all our
sources/applications/libraries.
Greetings,
Andreas
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text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> a GPL license higher than 3? Why is GPLv2 \
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">AFAIK this shall allow \
contributors to work at the KDE codebase without much thinking about license \
problems. For example, mixing (or even linking) GPL v2-only with GPL v3-only code \
guides to an application that you cannot legally distribute.</p> <p style=" \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Hence, having all code \
compatible with GPL v2 provides a common compatibility level for all our \
sources/applications/libraries.</p> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
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margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Greetings,</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; \
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