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All source code in KDE SVN must meet the following requirements:
All new source code and related data files in KDE SVN must meet the following requirements:
# All source files must contain a copyright header which identifies the copyright holder(s) together with a e-mail address that can be used to reach the copyright holder.
# All source files must contain a copyright header which identifies the copyright holder(s) together with an e-mail address that can be used to reach the copyright holder.
# Each source file must contain a license or a reference to a license which states under which terms the software may be used, modified and redistributed.
# Each source file must contain one of the licence headers listed below to state under which terms the software may be used, modified and redistributed.
# Source files that are part of a library in kdelibs must be licensed under the terms of any of the following licenses:
# Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is part of the KDE Platform (kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase-runtime) must be licensed under one of the following terms:
#* '''LGPL''' as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING.LIB}}
#* '''LGPL''' version 2.1 as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING.LIB}} or later
#* '''BSD license''' as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING.BSD}} and below.<br/>Note that the BSD license '''does not contain the so called 'advertisement clause'.'''
#* '''LGPL''' version 2.1 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V.
#* '''BSD license''' as listed below.<br/>Ensure that the BSD license '''does not contain the so called 'advertisement clause'.'''
#* '''MIT license''' as listed below.
#* '''X11 license''' as listed below.
#* '''X11 license''' as listed below.
# Any other source files must be licensed under the terms of one of the licenses listed under 3) or any of the following licenses:
# Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed under 3) or one of the following terms:
#* '''GPL''' as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING}}
#* '''GPL''' version 2 as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING}} or later
#* '''QPL''' as listed below.
#* '''GPL''' version 2 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V.
#* '''MIT license''' as listed below.
# Translations of text from the files described in section 3 must be licenced under one of the terms in sections 3.  Translations of text from other files must be licenced under one of the terms in sections 3 or 4.
#* '''Artistic license''' as listed below.
# Icons in kdelibs, kdepimlibs or kdebase runtime must be licenced under the '''LGPL''' 3 or later versions approved by KDE e.V.  Icons elsewhere can be licenced under any of the terms in section 3 or 4.
# Documentation must be licensed under one of the following terms:
#* '''FDL''' versions 1.2 as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING.DOC}} or later versions with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
#* '''FDL''' versions 1.2 as listed in {{path|kdelibs/COPYING.DOC}} or later versions approved by KDE e.V. with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. 
#:Documentation may additionally be licensed under any of the terms in section 3 or 4.
# Other data included in KDE's codebase must be licenced under one of the terms in sections 3 or 4.
# Contributors who have signed the Fiduciary License Agreement with KDE e.V. may licence files described in section 3 under LGPL 2.1/3 only and may licence other source files under GPL 2/3 only.
# As new versions of GNU licenses are published they will be discussed by the membership of KDE e.V. and accepted via an announcement on http://ev.kde.org if: not adopting the licence would harm the future distribution of KDE, the licence preserves freedom for our developers & users and a vote by the membership agrees to the acceptance of the new licence version.
 
== GPL Header ==
<pre>
Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</pre>
 
or for later versions approved by KDE e.V.
 
<pre>
Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License or (at your option) version 3 or any later version
accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its successor approved
by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall act as a proxy
defined in Section 14 of version 3 of the license.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</pre>
 
== LGPL Header ==
<pre>
Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
 
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</pre>
 
or for later versions approved by KDE e.V.
 
<pre>
Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
 
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.
 
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
</pre>


== BSD License ==
== BSD License ==
<pre>
<pre>
Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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== X11 License ==
== X11 License ==
<pre>
<pre>
Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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</pre>
</pre>


== QPL ==
== MIT license ==
<pre>
<pre>
    THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE
Copyright <year> <name of author> <e-mail>
  version 1.0
 
  Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Trolltech AS, Norway.
      Everyone is permitted to copy and
      distribute this license document.
 
The intent of this license is to establish freedom to share and change the
software regulated by this license under the open source model.
 
This license applies to any software containing a notice placed by the
copyright holder saying that it may be distributed under the terms of
the Q Public License version 1.0. Such software is herein referred to as
the Software.  This license covers modification and distribution of the
Software, use of third-party application programs based on the Software,
and development of free software which uses the Software.
 
Granted Rights
 
1. You are granted the non-exclusive rights set forth in this license
  provided you agree to and comply with any and all conditions in this
  license.  Whole or partial distribution of the Software, or software
  items that link with the Software, in any form signifies acceptance of
  this license.
 
2. You may copy and distribute the Software in unmodified form provided
  that the entire package, including - but not restricted to - copyright,
  trademark notices and disclaimers, as released by the initial developer
  of the Software, is distributed.
 
3. You may make modifications to the Software and distribute your
  modifications, in a form that is separate from the Software, such as
  patches. The following restrictions apply to modifications:


    a. Modifications must not alter or remove any copyright notices in
        the Software.
    b. When modifications to the Software are released under this
        license, a non-exclusive royalty-free right is granted to the
        initial developer of the Software to distribute your modification
        in future versions of the Software provided such versions remain
        available under these terms in addition to any other license(s) of
        the initial developer.
4. You may distribute machine-executable forms of the Software or
  machine-executable forms of modified versions of the Software, provided
  that you meet these restrictions:
    a. You must include this license document in the distribution.
    b. You must ensure that all recipients of the machine-executable forms
        are also able to receive the complete machine-readable source code
        to the distributed Software, including all modifications, without
        any charge beyond the costs of data transfer, and place prominent
        notices in the distribution explaining this.
    c. You must ensure that all modifications included in the
        machine-executable forms are available under the terms of this
        license.
5. You may use the original or modified versions of the Software to
  compile, link and run application programs legally developed by you
  or by others.
6. You may develop application programs, reusable components and other
  software items that link with the original or modified versions of the
  Software.  These items, when distributed, are subject to the following
  requirements:
    a. You must ensure that all recipients of machine-executable forms of
        these items are also able to receive and use the complete
        machine-readable source code to the items without any charge
        beyond the costs of data transfer.
    b. You must explicitly license all recipients of your items to use
        and re-distribute original and modified versions of the items in
        both machine-executable and source code forms. The recipients must
        be able to do so without any charges whatsoever, and they must be
        able to re-distribute to anyone they choose.
    c. If the items are not available to the general public, and the
        initial developer of the Software requests a copy of the items,
        then you must supply one.
    Limitations of Liability
In no event shall the initial developers or copyright holders be liable
for any damages whatsoever, including - but not restricted to - lost
revenue or profits or other direct, indirect, special, incidental or
consequential damages, even if they have been advised of the possibility
of such damages, except to the extent invariable law, if any, provides
otherwise.
          No Warranty
The Software and this license document are provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
                                Choice of Law
This license is governed by the Laws of Norway. Disputes shall be settled
by Oslo City Court.
</pre>
== MIT license ==
<pre>
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
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arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of
arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of
this software.
this software.
</pre>
== Artistic License ==
<pre>
                      The "Artistic License"
                              Preamble
The intent of this document is to state the conditions under which a
Package may be copied, such that the Copyright Holder maintains some
semblance of artistic control over the development of the package,
while giving the users of the package the right to use and
distribute the Package in a more-or-less customary fashion, plus the
right to make reasonable modifications.
Definitions:
  * "Package" refers to the collection of files distributed by the
    Copyright Holder, and derivatives of that collection of files
    created through textual modification.
  * "Standard Version" refers to such a Package if it has not been
    modified, or has been modified in accordance with the wishes of
    the Copyright Holder.
  * "Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or
    copyrights for the package.
  * "You" is you, if you're thinking about copying or distributing
    this Package.
  * "Reasonable copying fee" is whatever you can justify on the
    basis of media cost, duplication charges, time of people
    involved, and so on. (You will not be required to justify it to
    the Copyright Holder, but only to the computing community at
    large as a market that must bear the fee.)
  * "Freely Available" means that no fee is charged for the item
    itself, though there may be fees involved in handling the item.
    It also means that recipients of the item may redistribute it
    under the same conditions they received it.
1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of
the Standard Version of this Package without restriction, provided
that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and
associated disclaimers.
2. You may apply bug fixes, portability fixes and other
modifications derived from the Public Domain or from the Copyright
Holder. A Package modified in such a way shall still be considered
the Standard Version.
3. You may otherwise modify your copy of this Package in any way,
provided that you insert a prominent notice in each changed file
stating how and when you changed that file, and provided that you do
at least ONE of the following:
    a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or
    otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting
    said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or
    placing the modifications on a major archive site such as
    ftp.uu.net, or by allowing the Copyright Holder to include
    your modifications in the Standard Version of the Package.
    b) use the modified Package only within your corporation
    or organization.
    c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not
    conflict with standard executables, which must also be
    provided, and provide a separate manual page for each
    non-standard executable that clearly documents how it
    differs from the Standard Version.
    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
    Holder.
4. You may distribute the programs of this Package in object code or
executable form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
    a) distribute a Standard Version of the executables and
    library files, together with instructions (in the manual
    page or equivalent) on where to get the Standard Version.
    b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable
    source of the Package with your modifications.
    c) accompany any non-standard executables with their
    corresponding Standard Version executables, giving the
    non-standard executables non-standard names, and clearly
    documenting the differences in manual pages (or
    equivalent), together with instructions on where to get
    the Standard Version.
    d) make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
    Holder.
5. You may charge a reasonable copying fee for any distribution of
this Package. You may charge any fee you choose for support of this
Package. You may not charge a fee for this Package itself. However,
you may distribute this Package in aggregate with other (possibly
commercial) programs as part of a larger (possibly commercial)
software distribution provided that you do not advertise this
Package as a product of your own.
6. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
output from the programs of this Package do not automatically fall
under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever
generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated
with this Package.
7. C or perl subroutines supplied by you and linked into this
Package shall not be considered part of this Package.
8. The name of the Copyright Holder may not be used to endorse or
promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
9. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
                              The End
</pre>
</pre>


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Revision as of 15:57, 12 January 2008

All new source code and related data files in KDE SVN must meet the following requirements:

  1. All source files must contain a copyright header which identifies the copyright holder(s) together with an e-mail address that can be used to reach the copyright holder.
  2. Each source file must contain one of the licence headers listed below to state under which terms the software may be used, modified and redistributed.
  3. Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is part of the KDE Platform (kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase-runtime) must be licensed under one of the following terms:
    • LGPL version 2.1 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.LIB or later
    • LGPL version 2.1 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V.
    • BSD license as listed below.
      Ensure that the BSD license does not contain the so called 'advertisement clause'.
    • MIT license as listed below.
    • X11 license as listed below.
  4. Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed under 3) or one of the following terms:
    • GPL version 2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING or later
    • GPL version 2 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership of KDE e.V.
  5. Translations of text from the files described in section 3 must be licenced under one of the terms in sections 3. Translations of text from other files must be licenced under one of the terms in sections 3 or 4.
  6. Icons in kdelibs, kdepimlibs or kdebase runtime must be licenced under the LGPL 3 or later versions approved by KDE e.V. Icons elsewhere can be licenced under any of the terms in section 3 or 4.
  7. Documentation must be licensed under one of the following terms:
    • FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC or later versions with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
    • FDL versions 1.2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING.DOC or later versions approved by KDE e.V. with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
    Documentation may additionally be licensed under any of the terms in section 3 or 4.
  8. Other data included in KDE's codebase must be licenced under one of the terms in sections 3 or 4.
  9. Contributors who have signed the Fiduciary License Agreement with KDE e.V. may licence files described in section 3 under LGPL 2.1/3 only and may licence other source files under GPL 2/3 only.
  10. As new versions of GNU licenses are published they will be discussed by the membership of KDE e.V. and accepted via an announcement on http://ev.kde.org if: not adopting the licence would harm the future distribution of KDE, the licence preserves freedom for our developers & users and a vote by the membership agrees to the acceptance of the new licence version.

GPL Header

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 
the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

or for later versions approved by KDE e.V. 

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License or (at your option) version 3 or any later version
accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its successor approved
by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall act as a proxy 
defined in Section 14 of version 3 of the license.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

LGPL Header

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

or for later versions approved by KDE e.V. 

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
License along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

BSD License

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

X11 License

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be
used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings
in this Software without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.

MIT license

Copyright <year>  <name of author> <e-mail>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
copies and that both that the copyright notice and this
permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
documentation, and that the name of the author not be used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
software without specific, written prior permission.

The author disclaim all warranties with regard to this
software, including all implied warranties of merchantability
and fitness.  In no event shall the author be liable for any
special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages
whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether
in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action,
arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of
this software.
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