License choice

Dan Meltzer parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 01:00:12 CET 2011


Feel free to change it to v2+.  I probably just pressed the wrong
button whenever I made that file.

The same goes for any other places I did the same.

Dan,

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> Heya Dan :)
>
> Can you please check this? I know you're busy with other stuff atm so
> just let us know what you want and then someone else can make the
> change.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:52, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>> Most files in Amarok are licensed GPLv2 (or, at your option, any later
>> version). Some files are licensed GPLv3 (or, at your option, any later
>> version). Effectively, this means that you must choose GPLv3 (or later) for the
>> whole thing.
>>
>> For instance this:
>> http://gitweb.kde.org/amarok.git/blob/05663d4e37e86263a3471071a9f3cd7c0bbdcbb2:/src/core/capabilities/WriteLabelCapability.h
>> The .cpp file is similar. Granted, both of these are pretty trivial. In an
>> older branch there's additional copies of those files in the sqlcollection.
>>
>> Can you check with Dan Meltzer what was intended?
>>
>> From the point of view of software license transparency it would be best to
>> either:
>> - make Dan's code v2+ (if he and other contributors to those files agree)
>> - change the headers to say v3+ (thus making clear what the actually available
>> choices are)
>
> --
> Lydia Pintscher
> Amarok community manager
> kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
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