Releasing a non-KF5 library under MIT License

Alexander Potashev aspotashev at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 23:16:22 BST 2021


Hi,

I would like to release a Go library under the terms of the MIT
License and host it at invent.kde.org. The library definitely won't
fit in KF5 because it has nothing to do with Qt.

The https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy says I can't
do this because (according to this policy) the MIT License is only
allowed for parts of the "KDE Platform". Can we please review the
policy and stop this discrimination against projects that don't happen
to be part of the "KDE Platform"?


P.S.  It seems like MIT is already used outside of the "KDE Platform":
 - https://invent.kde.org/network/kaidan (at least two files are under MIT)
 - http://invent.kde.org/sdk/cutehmi (dual-licensed, including MIT)

-- 
Alexander Potashev



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