Licenses

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This page is intended to contain licensing information for the base components of TDE based on the information contained within them (TDEAboutData, LICENSE and COPYING files and source code headers). Click on the column headers to change sorting mode. Use 'Ctrl+F' to find something quickly.

Component	Package	License	Notes
DrKonqi	tdebase	BSD 2-clause, portions LGPL 2.0
KAppFinder	tdebase	GPL2
Kate	tdebase	LGPL 2.0	"The Kate app/utils/interfaces and KWrite app are licensed under the LGPL VERSION 2." (source)
KWrite	tdebase	LGPL 2.0	"The Kate app/utils/interfaces and KWrite app are licensed under the LGPL VERSION 2." (source)
KCheckPass	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcminit	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_access	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_arts	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_background	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_bell	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_clock	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_colors	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_componentchooser	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_crypto	tdebase	LGPL 2.1 or later
kcm_css	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_display	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_displayconfig	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_tdednssd	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_kurifilt	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_filetypes/keditfiletype	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_fonts	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_hwmanager	tdebase	GPL2 or later, portions LGPL 2.0 or later
tdehwdevicetray	tdebase	GPL3 or later, portions LGPL 2.0 or later
kcm_iccconfig	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_icons	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_info	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_input	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_joystick	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KControl	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_kded	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_keys	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_kicker	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_knotify	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_konq	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_konqhtml	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_konsole	tdebase	GPL2 or later
krdb	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_kthememanager	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_launch	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_locale	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_nic	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_performance	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_privacy	tdebase	LGPL 2.1 or later
kcm_randr	tdebase	GPL2 or later
TDERandRTray	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_samba	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_screensaver	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_smartcard	tdebase	GPL2 or later	Not supported by CMake build system
kcm_smserver	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_spellchecking	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_style	tdebase	GPL2
kcm_taskbar	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_fontinst/tdefontinst/tdefontview/kctdeio_fonts	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_tdeio	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_tdm	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_usb	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_view1394	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kcm_xinerama	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KDCOP	tdebase	Artistic License 1.0
KDesktop	tdebase	GPL2 or later, portions GPL2 only, portions LGPL 2.0
KDialog	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KFind	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KHelpCenter	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KHotKeys	tdebase	GPL2
Kicker	tdebase	MIT License, portions GPL2 or later
Klipper	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KMenuEdit	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KNetAttach	tdebase	GPL2 or later
Konqueror	tdebase	GPL2 or later, portions LGPL 2.0
Konsole	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KPager	tdebase	GPL2 or later
KPersonalizer	tdebase	GPL2 or later
kreadconfig/kwriteconfig	tdebase	GPL2
krootbacking	tdebase	GPL2 or later
ksmserver	tdebase	MIT License
KSplash	tdebase	GPL2
kstart	tdebase	Artistic License 1.0
KSysGuard	tdebase	GPL2, portions GPL2 or later
KSysTrayCmd	tdebase	GPL2
KTip	tdebase	GPL2
KXkb/kcm_keyboard	tdebase	GPL2 or later, portions MIT License
libkonq	tdebase	LGPL 2.0
kcm_nsplugins	tdebase	GPL2 or later
TDEDebugDialog	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeeject	tdebase	GPL2
tdeinit	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_about	tdebase	GPL2 or later
tdeio_cgi/kcm_cgi	tdebase	GPL2 or later
tdeio_filter	tdebase	MIT License
tdeio_finger	tdebase	GPL2 or later
tdeio_fish	tdebase	GPL2
tdeio_floppy	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_home	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_info	tdebase	MIT License, portions GPL2 or later
tdeio_ldap	tdebase	MIT License
tdeio_mac	tdebase	GPL2 or later
tdeio_man	tdebase	MIT License
tdeio_media/kcm_media	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later, portions GPL2 or later
tdeio_nfs	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later, portions special Sun RPC license*	* This special Sun RPC license is now obsolete, Sun RPC has been relicensed under BSD 3-clause.
tdeio_nntp	tdebase	LGPL 2.0
tdeio_pop3	tdebase	BSD 2-clause
tdeio_remote	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_settings	tdebase	LGPL 2.0
tdeio_sftp	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_smb	tdebase	LGPL 2.1 or later*	* Confusingly enough, claims to be licensed under "GNU General Public License [...] either version 2.1 [...] or (at your option) any later version.", but there was no GNU GPL version 2.1
tdeio_smtp	tdebase	Mixed BSD 2-clause and GPL2*	* GPL-licensed files have special exception that allows them to be linked with any Qt version
tdeio_system	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_tar	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_thumbnail	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later
tdeio_trash	tdebase	LGPL 2.0 or later, portions GPL2
tdekbdledsync	tdebase	GPL3 or later
tdepasswd	tdebase	Artistic License 1.0
kcm_useraccount	tdebase	GPL2 or later
TDEPrint	tdebase	LGPL 2.0
TDESU	tdebase	Artistic License 1.0
TDM/tdmlib	tdebase	GPL2 or later, portions GPL3 or later, portions MIT License variant (no advertising clause)
tqt3integration	tdebase	GPL2 or later
TSAK	tdebase	GPL3 or later
TWin	tdebase	GPL2 or later, portions MIT License
Compton-TDE	tdebase	???	License info missing. Source header says to look into LICENSE file but none such is found. Original Compton licensed under MIT License.