diff --git a/Copyright b/Copyright index bca09354..fcacd8ca 100644 --- a/Copyright +++ b/Copyright @@ -39,26 +39,3 @@ The part of Konsole that constitutes the `libkonsole' library is subject of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL) with the above permission included. - - If you're a freeware author and in need of any changes to the - libkonsole for your work, the usual send-me-the-patch procedure - applies. - - ~~~~~ - - Rational - - - One might wonder about the complication of the license of Konsole - and it's parts, so some explanation is needed for the ones who take - care of this. - - Because QT (on which the whole KDE bases) is a non-GPL library a - lot of concerns have been mentioned, one of them making Debian and - others to stop distributing KDE. As a result of this, authors of other - parts of KDE have moved to the Artistic License. - - Now since some of these authors might want to reuse the core parts - of Konsole (and i encourage them to do so), i have formally to enable - them by putting these parts under a different license (LGPL for - these authors and an extra permission for Debian). diff --git a/config/var/Copyright b/config/var/Copyright index bca09354..fcacd8ca 100644 --- a/config/var/Copyright +++ b/config/var/Copyright @@ -39,26 +39,3 @@ The part of Konsole that constitutes the `libkonsole' library is subject of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL) with the above permission included. - - If you're a freeware author and in need of any changes to the - libkonsole for your work, the usual send-me-the-patch procedure - applies. - - ~~~~~ - - Rational - - - One might wonder about the complication of the license of Konsole - and it's parts, so some explanation is needed for the ones who take - care of this. - - Because QT (on which the whole KDE bases) is a non-GPL library a - lot of concerns have been mentioned, one of them making Debian and - others to stop distributing KDE. As a result of this, authors of other - parts of KDE have moved to the Artistic License. - - Now since some of these authors might want to reuse the core parts - of Konsole (and i encourage them to do so), i have formally to enable - them by putting these parts under a different license (LGPL for - these authors and an extra permission for Debian).