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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ALWAYS FREE?
From:       Steffen Hansen <stefh () mip ! sdu ! dk>
Date:       1999-09-12 22:32:00
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> A section from kdelibs/README:
> 
>   The libraries themselves have been covered (since Saturday, June 21st, 1997)
>   by the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).  Any other programs (such as
>   the examples) are covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).  All the
>   gory details for the LGPL reside in COPYING.LIB, and for the GPL reside in
>   COPYING.

I hate to bring up the licencing issue again, but the example and tutorial
code shouldn't be GPL. It should be less restrictive -- people should be
allowed to use example code in any way they wish.

Take the Qt examples for example:

** Copyright (C) 1992-1999 Troll Tech AS.  All rights reserved. 
** 
** This file is part of an example program for Qt.  This example 
** program may be used, distributed and modified without limitation.   
  
greetings,
-- 
Steffen Hansen                            
email: stefh@mip.sdu.dk, stefh@imada.sdu.dk, hansen@kde.org 
URL:   http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~stefh       

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