Releasing a non-KF5 library under MIT License

[Alexander Potashev]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:54 AM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
>
> Alexander Potashev ha scritto:
> > 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]

Makes sense. Thanks for pointing this out!

(IOW the licensing policy "KDE Platform" is even tighter and for the
other projects, and this is great for me!)

-- 
Alexander Potashev