License Statement Clarification in KArchive

[David Faure]

On vendredi 7 février 2020 10:41:00 CET Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
> On vendredi 7 février 2020 09:27:49 CET David Faure wrote:
> > On mercredi 5 février 2020 18:43:10 CET Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > > 
> > > during the SPDX license marker introduction into KArchive we found the
> > > following two files in KArchive with ambiguous license statements, which
> > > mix LGPL and GPL terms:
> > > 
> > > https://cgit.kde.org/karchive.git/tree/src/krcc.cpp
> > > https://cgit.kde.org/karchive.git/tree/src/krcc.h
> > 
> > I'm confused. Where does this include GPL terms?
> > 
> > It says "Library General Public License" twice.
> 
> The library is LGPL-2.0-only OR LGPL-3.0-only and
> mentions the section 14 of the GPL-3.0. That's the issue.
> 
> You can't invoke a clause from a different license :)
> For LGPL-2.0 or 2.1, the clause from section 6 shall be used. [1]
> 
> As a comparison for a LGPL-2.1 or 3 + ev. file:
> 
> 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.
> 
> [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0-only.html#licenseText

OK, feel free to use those terms in any of the LGPL files I contributed to.

Sorry for doing some unintentional mixup.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5