Request to relicense all CC0-1.0 code to MIT (or similar permissive license)

Heiko Becker heiko.becker at kde.org
Sun Jan 22 18:34:52 GMT 2023


On Sunday, 22 January 2023 18:01:35 CET, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El diumenge, 22 de gener de 2023, a les 14:12:32 (CET), Neal Gompa va 
> escriure:
>> During a review for flatpak-kcm for inclusion in Fedora, I discovered
>> that KDE currently licenses its CI scripts under the CC0 (SPDX:
>> CC0-1.0) license.
>
> You mean .gitlab-ci.yml files ?
>
> Just scrub those from the tarball if those are causing you problems since 
> those are in no way needed for the build. 
>
> If scrubing them from the released tarballs is a problem for 
> some reason you 
> could even try to propose changes to our packaging scripts that 
> remove those 
> from the release tarballs, if they are not super intrusive i 
> guess that they 
> could be accepted by the release folk.

Also, and I'm not a lawyer, nor do I want to be one, but can yaml files 
basically just declaratively listing dependencies really be considered 
code? 

Cheers,
Heiko


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