Re: Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

To: Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL
From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:54:53 +0530
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References: <[🔎] 46DA4CDB.9020301@gmail.com> <[🔎] 87abs5bge9.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <[🔎] 20070902115441.60223090.frx@firenze.linux.it>

Francesco Poli wrote:

In the KDE+Qt example, the recipient is allowed to port the KDE library
to a toolkit other than Qt.  If the chosen toolkit is licensed under a
more permissive license than the GPL (e.g.: LGPL, Expat, 3-clause BSD,

Excellent answer. I also realized that if a person has a commerciallicense to Qt then that person can also use the KDE libs to createnon-GPL-ed software based on that kdelibs/Qt combination.


Shriramana Sharma.

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