gpgme license

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Werner expressed his views on LGPL'ing GPGME publicly last time here:
http://www.advogato.org/article/685.html

Now, this is already a year old, and doesn't concern the Qt exemption
you are proposing as an alternative.  Maybe Werner wants to say more
about that.

At Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:21:14 +0200,
Marc Mutz wrote:
 
> Hi,
> 
> since the Aegypten-2 project, we committed ourselves to use gpgme in KDEPIM to 
> interface to gnupg 1.x (and pre-2.0).
> 
> Unfortunately, this conflicts with the possibility to have KDEPIM native on 
> Windows. The problem here is of course that Qt on Windows is not available in 
> a GPL version, and the alternative cygwin solution is considered by many to 
> not be native enough to compete with native Windows solutions.
> 
> So on behalf of the KDEPIM team I'd like to ask the gpgme team to consider a 
> change in the license of gpgme. We would be interested in having either the 
> Qt exception added (see below for the exact wording (same as the one 
> suggested in the FSF FAQ)), or go the full way and have it LGPL.
> 
> The benfits for gpgme/gnupg would be a chance to gain in the size of the user 
> base. As we have seen during Aegypten-2, KDEPIM using gpgme seriously let to 
> a lot of bug fixes and portability fixes for gpgme being posted back upstream 
> from libgpgme-copy in KDEPIM CVS. The change in usebase from Unix to Windows 
> could have a similar effect on the stability and portability of gpgme.
> 
> What are your thoughts on this issue?
> 
> Qt exception as is is currently worded in KMail:
>     In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
>     permission to link the code of this program with any edition of
>     the Qt library by Trolltech AS, Norway (or with modified versions
>     of Qt that use the same license as Qt), and distribute linked
>     combinations including the two.  You must obey the GNU General
>     Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
>     Qt.  If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to
>     your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If
>     you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from
>     your version.
> 
> Marc
> 
> -- 
> Marc Mutz -- marc at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, mutz at kde.org
> Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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