<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Consolas'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi all,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>While looking into altering the behavior of executing .desktop files in response to the thread on it (and the LWN and slashdot stories) I came across what I believe is a mistake in licensing:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The kdelibs/kinit/proctitle.{h,cpp} files are both licenses GPLv2+ instead of LGPL like the rest of kdelibs.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>In this case it is compiled into the executable kdeinit4 (not a library however). So that's kind of a mitigating factor, but is this desired? I guess really the question is does this fall into a "Source file that is part of a library with a public API which is part of KDE Platform" [1]?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>klauncher itself is accessed over D-Bus and not linked to directly but it does provide library-like services to KDE applications (and is used as such by various code in kdelibs which *does* get linked in). So is this something that is wrong, technically correct but undesired, or desired licensing? (The other files in klauncher are licensed LGPL...)?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
- Michael Pyne<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy para. 3</p></body></html>