[bt-devel] Licensing

[Daniel Glassey]

On 13 Jun 2000, at 17:08, Joachim Ansorg sent forth the message:

> Hi!
> 
> AFAIK the FSF accepted the QT free license as a "GPL like" license! 

Hi,
They accepted it as a 'free' license, but as one that doesn't work 
well with the GPL.

> But why it's forbidden to link a "GPL"ed program with a "QT free" licensed program ??

It's ok to link them together (AFAIK), it's just that you can't 
distribute GPL code and QPL code in the same program.

> I hope I understood your explanations, but if BibleTime has the additional
> things in the license may we link to KDE ( you know, they do not want to change
> the license) ?

Yes. The KDE libraries are ok because they are under the LGPL which 
basically allows anything to link to them.
The only potential problem would be the KDE code that is part of 
Bibletime (this stuff):

> > KTipOfDay is from the KDevelop team.
> > In 0.3 we use some code from Konqueror and KDevelop.

It isn't possible to change the license of that code without permission.

> I think it's OK to distribute BIbleTime with a distribution, but this license
> issue is annoying.

Indeed :(

Regards,
   Daniel