[Interest] Qt free software policy

Benjamin TERRIER b.terrier at gmail.com
Sat Aug 17 11:18:40 CEST 2019


Le ven. 16 août 2019 à 08:41, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> a
écrit :

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> I do agree that we should clarify this, especially the GPLv2 and GPLv3
> part is not clearly explained at qt.io websites. The approach is to use
> the v3 of both LGPL and GPL for new things, but to keep GPLv2 option for
> Essentials and those Add-ons that existed in December 2015, see clause 4.4
> and 4.6 in
> https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreement_2015.pdf
>
>
>

Thank you for claryfing that.
I have one last question. As Thiago said that it is up to the module author
do choose the license, would a module author be able to choose only between
GPLv3 and LGPLv3? Or could the author ask the module to be also available
under GPLv2?

Br,

Benjamin
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