Review request: moving libkgoogle to extragear

[Dan Vratil]

On Sunday 27 of May 2012 12:53:40 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dissabte, 26 de maig de 2012, a les 17:23:13, Dan Vratil va escriure:
> > On Saturday 26 of May 2012 11:42:41 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > Dan Vratil <dan at progdan.cz> writes:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > LibKGoogle is a new optional dependency of kdepim-runtime. It's used
> > > > by
> > > > the
> > > > new Akonadi Google resources.
> > > > 
> > > > It's now in kdereview [0] and I'd like to move it to extragear, so I'm
> > > > asking for a review on the library.
> > > 
> > > One thing I have noticed is that libkgoogle seems to be GPLv3+, while
> > > KDE's licensing policy [1] says code under the GPL should be GPLv2+.
> > 
> > As far as I understand the policies, libkgoogle is a subject to point 5,
> > which says
> > 
> > Any other source files must be licensed under one of the terms listed
> > under
> > 4) or one of the following terms
> > 
> >  * GPL version 2 as listed in kdelibs/COPYING or later
> >  * GPL version 2 or version 3 or later versions approved by the membership
> > 
> > of KDE e.V.
> > 
> >  * ...
> > 
> > I understand the second item as "either GPLv2 or GPLv3 or any later
> > approved version", so GPLv3+ should be OK too, right?
> 
> No, you missed the part that says "Note each bulletpoint above is a single
> option, it can not be licenced under just part of one bulletpoint option"
> 

Right, I'm sorry. 

I've changed the license of the project to GPLv2+. The change is already 
available in git.

Cheers,

Dan


> Albert
> 
> > But if GPLv3+ should really be a problem, I'm OK with downgrading the
> > license (I guess I'll have to ask others who contributed).
> > 
> > > The ${qjson_LIBRARIES} hack should not be needed anymore anyway, as the
> > > naming scheme was restored months ago in git master (no version was
> > > released with the names messed up).
> > 
> > Thanks, I'll remove it.
> > 
> > > [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
-- 
Dan Vratil
www.progdan.cz | dan at progdan.cz | Jabber: progdan at jabber.cz
Fingerprint: 76C9 2F08 5D0D 6F9E 5AD4 2BFD 3A85 0307 F506 5B61
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 490 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20120530/d2203499/attachment.sig>