[bt-devel] Licensing

[Joachim Ansorg]

I wrote to the authors of KTipOfTheDay and the KAction classes.

The author of the action classes doesn't want to add th exception, but he 
allows to license the sourcecode under the LGPL !
What's the difference between the GPL and LGPL ? If you don't know it I'll 
try to find out if myself, but I think you are a license expoert ;-)

If it's ok we'll probably switch to LGPL.

--Joachim

Am Mon, 12 Jun 2000 schrieben Sie:
> Hi, 	I don't know if anyone has followed the problem with Debian
> and KDE because of the incompatibility of the GPL and QPL(Qt
> licence). afaik bibletime is covered by the pure GPL so it's going to
> be in the same boat unless it is changed.
>
> (I'll try and explain if someone wants me to).
>
> 	Would it be possible to change the license of Bibletime by adding
> the exception:
> 'As a special exception, you have permission to link this program with
> the Qt library and distribute executables, as long as you follow the
> requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the software in the
> executable aside from Qt. ' ?
>
> This comes from http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html as
> the solution to the issue.
>
> Thing is I assume that a license change like is would require consent
> by all of 'The Bibletime Team'. And the consent of the original
> coders of ktipofday and any other GPL'd code from other sources if
> it is to be included.
>
> After further checking it also looks like swords license needs
> modified (to allow bibletime to be linked with it and Qt). I haven't
> found yet what a suitable exception is, but will let you know if you
> like when I do.
>
> Regards,
> 	Daniel
>
>
> P.S. FWIW I'm trying to push for kdelibs to be included in Debian so
> that apps like bibletime could be included as well.
>
> P.P.S. This isn't intended as an attempt to start a flamewar here too,
> just as a statement of what IMHO is the current position.