amarok licensing

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Wed Jul 25 17:51:37 CEST 2007


On 7/25/07, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> 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?

We were just wondering about this: Would we need to get permission
from every single contributor?

-- 
Mark


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