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- Subject: Re: [eigen] two decisions to take
- From: "Schleimer, Ben" <bensch128@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
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> > if we license as LGPL v3, then GPL-v2-only projects can't use Eigen. That's
> > a problem, but how big is it? Are there many GPL-v2-only projects out
> > there?
>
> kdelibs, other parts and Qt itself.
>
> That is the reason why KDE is not allowed to move to GPL3 and why KDE4.0 is
> not allowed to use Samba 4 (Samba recently switched to GPL3).
>
Sigh, I agree. It's not a good idea to go to LGPLv3 while kde is still LGPLv2. Then there might be
problems mixing the code.
Cheers
Ben