Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu Sep 23 18:30:02 BST 2021


On Wednesday, 22 September 2021 03:57:37 PDT Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> I think I'd be against adding it to the policy, the aim of the policy has
> always been to keep it simple which licence to use so ensure code and be
> swapped around within and outwith KDE with minimal worry about different
> licences.  Apache 2 doesn't add any useful use case to our licences that
> isn't already covered by another one, it's just a bit more explicit about
> the intended uses.

If we add it, I recommend we add instead "Apache2 OR GPL-2.0-or-later". It 
can't be Apache 2 only.

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