What distributions would like KDE to do, sidenote: developers, check your licenses!

[Luca Beltrame]

Hello people,

I write here because for the second time in a while (the first one was [1]), in 
openSUSE we've had problems submitting PIM packages due to a mixture of 
incompatible licenses (GPL v2 only + GPL v3 in this case), which are noted by 
our ever-watching legal team. 

I believe this specific case (I have sent a mail to the kde-pim ML to try and 
fix the issue) highlights the fact that *especially with repo moves* licensing 
needs to be checked to ensure that you don't mix up licenses. And adding 
yourselves to relicensecheck.pl would also help in fixing the issue. 

Having wrong or incompatible licenses in a repo, aside the fact that would 
probably make distribution impossible, *delays* software being shipped to your 
users by distributions. Ensure you've done your homework also here: it's 
extremely boring and looks like a waste of time, but it's needed.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351752

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Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team
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