Licensing questions for CMake code, example code & generated code

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Sun Jun 28 16:15:50 BST 2020


Hi,

applying Andreas' license digger (tool to convert existing license headers to 
SPDX compliant headers. see https://invent.kde.org/sdk/licensedigger ) on some 
code resulted in some more reflections about the respective code and its 
current licenses, which could not immediately be resolved by looking at KDE's 
Licensing Policy ( https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy ).

So to get help with those questions, I opened three respective tasks on 
phabricator, hoping that the usual suspects as well as others also with 
licensing knowledge could help resolve those, so the policy can be updated 
where needed:

Clarify usage of BSD-3-Clause license with (CMake) code
https://phabricator.kde.org/T13344

Recommended/required license for example code
https://phabricator.kde.org/T13345

Recommended/required license for generated code
https://phabricator.kde.org/T13346

TIA,
Cheers
Friedrich





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