GPL Linking exception or transformation to LGPL?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 15 June 2015 at 12:55, Christophe Conil <christophe.conil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jos, Jaroslaw and Alexander,
>
> First, thank you very much for the fast and kind answers!
> I didn't knew about the possibility of the GPL to use the code in my
> own executable, thanks for spotting that! I guess this solves my
> question: I'm indeed not planning to redistribute the executable (at
> least for now).
>
> As soon as I get a stable and clean implementation of the library,
> I'll come back to you for integration purpose. Still, as you pointed
> it, it probably makes sense to unify the licenses of the listed files.
>
> Attached you'll find the complete list of contributors who worked on
> them. If you want, I can try to contact individually the developers
> who worked on those files and
> propose them an alternative license for a packaging into a library. In
> this case, what should be the proposed license ? LGPLv2.1 or later?

It's a task of maintainers and a request to KDE e.V. maybe.
It's also hard to say how to contact Nokia these days. This is why
[https://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php] is practical.
I really trust you'd be able to find the code useful *and* contribute back :)

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