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

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Donnerstag, 14. April 2016 11:52:55 CEST Luca Beltrame wrote:
> 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

Hi Luca,
thank you for the input, this is indeed very relevant!
Now the question is: How can we ensure that licenses get checked? 
Would it be possible to check them automatically using commit hooks, for 
example?
How could we ensure it during repo moves?