Licensing

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# Kapitel 16. Licensing

This section deals with questions that come up in regards to licensing applications that are created with the KDevelop IDE. First, we will have a look at the default behavior, discuss adavantages of licensing your applications under the GPL and finally will cover issues that come up when developing commercial applications.

# 16.1. The GPL License

The KDevelop IDE itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License. This license ensures that any user can copy, modify and redistribute the KDevelop sourcecode package under the terms of this license. The license itself guarantees this as well as the rights of the KDevelop Team members as the authors of this product.

Out of this reason and the dedication to help free software authors developing their products, all KDevelop generated frameworks contain a GPL licensing reference as well as a copy of the license as well. Developers on the other hand can use this license as a base for distributing their product but are in no way bound to do so.

The author, when using the GPL as the license for his product, also takes advantage out of this:

- you can use any existing code also licensed under the GPL and include it into your package (as long as there are no restrictions that interfere to any code-reuse due to the limitations of the used software's licensing),

- your code has a copyright license that protects your rights as the original author,

- the re-use of your code by other authors improve the general development of free applications.

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