KInfoCenter rewrite in Kdereview

[David Hubner]

On Thursday 08 April 2010 19:20:33 David Hubner wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 April 2010 22:41:56 David Hubner wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 02:19:32 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > On Monday 05 April 2010 20:07:23 David Hubner wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I have mostly finished the new rewrite of kinfocenter. The rewrite was due
> > > > to a lot of legacy code in the old version, it was going to be more
> > > > trouble to modify the old code than write new code.
> > > > 
> > > > Some new features of the kinfocenter are:
> > > > 
> > > > - Getting some consistency between system settings.
> > > > - Summary page
> > > > - removes all legacy code and uses model/view
> > > > - new summary KCM
> > > > - Better organisation of the KCM's
> > > > - Export
> > > > 
> > > > There is still a few things to do at the moment, i need to redo some of the
> > > > documentation as well as write new parts and add Whatsthis information to
> > > > the KCM's
> > > > 
> > > > Some things to take note are:
> > > > 
> > > > - The network interfaces viewer is not complete yet, it will appear blank.
> > > > - You need trunk due to patches added to solid and KdeUI
> > > > - Only summary has export functionality at the moment. It will be added to
> > > > most of them. - The tooltips need a little more info.
> > > > 
> > > > Apart from that i feel it is complete. If possible could i get some
> > > > feedback on what people think? Its in kdereview under kinfocenter2.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > I just had a quick look at kinfocenter1's copyright issues pointed out by 
> > > Krazy, and apparently they still haven't been fixed -- furthermore, some small 
> > > files, such as Modules/memory/memory_{fbsd,linux,netbsd,...}.{cpp,h} don't 
> > > even have a copyright header at all.
> > > 
> > > I'll see if it works fine on FreeBSD later.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, i shall have to contact the authors of the old modules and see if i can change the licensing on the old modules. Could be a sticky problem if i cannot contact them :(  
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yer, i had a good look at this.. nearly all code in the info, pci and memory directories have no licenses. I spent 3-4 hrs today going through it, looking in SVN log if there was no email in there. I e-mailed the authors but with code from 1999 i am already getting bounces.
> 
> Any idea what i do with code where i cannot contact the authors but has no license? 
> 
> 

Lots of memory, info and base code - Helge Deller
Moving the licenses to LGPL 2.1 or 3

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Hi David,

thanks for keeping up the work on KInfoCenter !!!

I do not have any big preference for any of those licenses, so maybe we choose:
-> LGPL version 2.1 or version 3 or later versions 
(unless you think this might be a bad decision, e.g. if the other modules prefer another licensing...)

If it's fine for you, please just go ahead and add the license header to the files.

Thanks,
Helge
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