simple license scan for plasma-mobile

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 26 September 2011 00:45:06 Armijn Hemel wrote:
> hola,
> 
> >> Sebas asked me if I could help out with a license scan of some of the
> >> Plasma Active code. I quickly scanned some of the plasma-mobile stuff.
> >>
> >> I downloaded
> >>
> >> plasma-mobile_20110922042532_sha1-d5a2e48206689ac612af4c1735060d96852004bb.
> >> tar.gz
> > thanks dude, this help is really appreciated :D
> Oh, believe me, when it comes to legal stuff this would be the *least* 
> of your problems. But it could still be a headache, so why not prevent it?
> > I started to correct the share-like-conect to add "library" around. if the
> > other copyright holders (Aaron, Sebas and Ivan) are ok, I'll push.
> I saw a few other names in plasma-mobile as well, like Chani. I guess it 
> won't be a really big deal, it is just a clarification.
> > this is an issue as you noted due to evil copy and paste, that is probably
> > coming from the old gpl->lgpl switch of kdelibs. this issue seems to be
> > definitely present in libplasma as well and many files of kdelibs ( luckily
> > not all ;)
> >
> > so, i think we should raid and rename whole kdelibs :/
> 
> You mean fix it? Ideally, yes. It might also be good to bring it to the 
> attention of other developers (blog post?) so they can fix their code 
> and templates (interesting question: did this stuff ever end up in for 
> example templates in KDevelop?) so it won't happen (much) in the future.
Yes that is something which should be made aware to all developers. I also only c'n'p the license header. There is a 
Krazy check for license headers, but I don't know whether it covers the issues you found. Might be an idea to check 
that first.

Cheers
Martin
> 
> armijn
> 
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