Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

[Carl Schwan]

Le mercredi 15 septembre 2021 à 9:42 PM, Alexander Potashev <aspotashev at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
> Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed
> under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing
> policy.
>
> Considering Apache-2.0 is similar to MIT, I don't see why it shouldn't
> be allowed by the policy. Is anyone aware of past discussions of the
> KDE licensing policy and reasoning behind this fact?
>
> The proposed addition to the policy section of https://community.kde.org/
> Policies/Licensing_Policy would be:
>
> """
> 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:
> ...
> [new bullet point] * Apache-2.0: Apache License 2.0 as listed below.
> """
> What do you think?

Big +1

>
> --
> Alexander Potashev