> > Qt license specifically grants the unlimited use of Qt for GPL'ed
> > software, so if there is no legal problem with that, KDE is really under
> > valid GPL. If not (or if GPL will be changed to make it invalid), code
>
> Go see a lawyer. The Qt license is an "additional restriction"
In case the licensing issues ever goes into court I expect that this
paragraph will not be applied because the original authors of KDE as
well as those who contributed KDE specific code were silently accepting
this licensing collision. On the other side I would expect a court to
consider incorportation of code from other ``true'' GPL code a violation
of the license.
Then again fixing the issue by changing the KDE license is tough as well,
all KDE authors would have to agree with this to be on the safe side.
Unlikely to happen for a project with a three digit number of
contributors.
Ralf
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