Potential GPL2 concern
AkihiroSuda opened this issue · 3 comments
Thanks a lot for working on this, but I'm not sure this project can be licensed under the terms of 3-clause BSDL, as it seems linked with qtermwidget
, which seems licensed under the terms of GPL2 https://github.com/lxqt/qtermwidget/tree/0.17.0#overview
Linking with qtermwidget is optional, and I think the GPL license only applies to (unused) parts of the project ? The files that are included, are under the LGPL (not GPL) - which should be OK to include
But I can go through the files, right now it's just a library: libqtermwidget5-0-dev
If it doesn't work out, one can fall back to starting xterm
- or something like that.
Think I looked too fast, while qtermwidget.h is LGPL some other files are indeed GPL.
I will make it optional (opt-in), and those who want it can build a GPLv2 licensed version of the app
Fixed in ef226bb