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

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Thu Oct 31 12:47:05 GMT 2024


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.

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

/Sune



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