Licensing for cxx-kde-frameworks (Rust bridge for KF6)

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Nov 1 22:25:58 GMT 2024


El dijous, 31 d’octubre del 2024, a les 13:47:05 (Hora estàndard del Centre 
d’Europa), Sune Vuorela va escriure:
> On 2024-10-30, Darshan Phaldesai <dev.darshanphaldesai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Few considerations:
> > First, I plan to include bridges for most libraries needed for
> > application development and so need to consider their licenses as well.
> > Second, This project will only hold the "bridge" code and thus users
> > will still need to install the libraries. I don't think this should
> > cause any license violations but the bridge code is based of the method
> > signatures of the original libraries.
> > Third, Upstream `cxx-qt` project uses Apache-2.0+MIT and I planned to do
> > the same but KDE's Licensing policy doesn't mention any thing about
> > Apache-2.0.
> 
> I'd say just stick the same license on it as the KDE Frameworks in
> question.
> Given they are a directly derived work and also uses the KDE Frameworks
> underneath, giving any other license is just going to be confusing for
> the people involved.

+1

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> The app developers needs to deal with (l)gpl licenses anyway.
> 
> /Sune






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