[Digikam-devel] libface under GPLv3

[Aditya Bhatt]

Hi Marcel,

Personally I don't really care much about what my code is licensed as, so
I'm okay with any license. Is GPLv2 okay? I'm quite fine with BSD too.

What do you say, Alex? What license should we switch libface to?

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> reading through libface, I have seen that this library is licensed under
> GPLv3-or-later.
> Is there any strong reason not to license it under GPLv2+GPLv3-or-later?
>
> The current state is in violation of the KDE licensing policy:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> See also:
> http://www.layt.net/john/blog/odysseus/a_reminder_on_gpl3_code_in_kde
>
> libface is clearly not part of KDE proper, but code developed under the KDE
> umbrella for GSoC, with the intention of writing a KDE wrapper and using it
> in
> KDE code, should in my opinion comply with KDE's policy.
>
> Marcel
>



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