Releasing a non-KF5 library under MIT License

Luigi Toscano luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Tue Mar 30 23:54:13 BST 2021


Alexander Potashev ha scritto:
> 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". 

Does it? I see:

4. Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is part of
the KDE Platform (kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kde-runtime and KDE Frameworks) must be
licensed under:
[... licenses, including: ...]
 * MIT: MIT license as listed below.
[...]

5. Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed under
4) or:
[ other licenses]


-- 
Luigi



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