amarok licensing

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Wed Jul 25 17:26:40 CEST 2007


On 7/25/07, Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org> wrote:
> It seems to me that amarok is still licensed as GPLv2 only. Given that
> Trolltech has now a GPL exception clause, it would finally allow us to use
> non-GPL licensed codecs (think e.g. mp3 or video codecs) together with
> amarok, if amarok would allow to do so.
>
> Did  you think about adding an exception clause for that to the license?

This sounds like very good news to me. I think we would like to add
such an exception to our license, as it would solve a lot of legal
hassle. We could probably already do this before the upcoming 1.4.7
release.

Could you point us to the necessary changes we have to make?

-- 
Mark


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