Comment Re:What are the licensing issues here? (Score 1) 107
I think there are some licensing issues here that are not related to the traditional KDE/QT license bashing.
To be specific, under the GPL the theory is that if you create an application that uses open source code licensed under GPL, the GPL provisions are extended to your application too.
So what about commercial applications that allow the embedding of Kparts components covered under the GPL? Does the GPL flow back or is this a mechanism that allows proprietary developers to circumvent the GPL?
Although I am not a lawyer, I would guess that the XParts architecture with the use of dcomp certainly avoids the triggering of the GPL...
To be specific, under the GPL the theory is that if you create an application that uses open source code licensed under GPL, the GPL provisions are extended to your application too.
So what about commercial applications that allow the embedding of Kparts components covered under the GPL? Does the GPL flow back or is this a mechanism that allows proprietary developers to circumvent the GPL?
Although I am not a lawyer, I would guess that the XParts architecture with the use of dcomp certainly avoids the triggering of the GPL...
