Licenses in kdelibs...

[Harald Sitter]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 14:15:16 Peter Antoniac wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that Frederik said (on kde-core-dev ML) that kdelibs license
> policy is to be LGPL. Still, looking at most of the debian packages
> containing kdelibs copyright notes I read:
>
> "Unless something else is mentioned, the code files in this package are
> under GPL"
>
> From:
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/k/kde4libs/kde4libs_4.1.2-1
>/kdelibs5.copyright
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/k/kde4libs/kde4libs_4.1.2
>-0ubuntu1/kdelibs5.copyright
>
> And it goes down to all the packages, like libplasma2...etc...
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/k/kdebase-workspace/kdebase
>-workspace_4.1.2-1/libplasma2.copyright
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/k/kdebase-workspace/kdeba
>se-workspace_4.1.2-0ubuntu1/libplasma2.copyright
>
> Is this correct? Do I miss something? Whom should I believe?

I would suggest reading the complete document. There is a list with copyright 
holders and licenses underneath the short licenses, which for kde4libs is 
almost exclusively LGPLv2

Regards,
Harald

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