Request for relicensing of CMakeLists.txt files in plasma-welcome from GPL to BSD-2-Clause

[Nate Graham]

On 8/13/23 20:08, Aaron Rainbolt wrote> It's called Karton - it's 
intended to be a KDE-centric libvirt frontend
> that will eventually be able to replace GNOME-based tools like 
> virt-manager and GNOME Boxes. It will be written using Qt Quick and 
> Kirigami. Justin made a Matrix room for it at #karton:kde.org. So far we 
> have a working VNC widget for Kirigami based on KRDC's code, and a 
> minimal (and very rudimentary and not-yet-published) proof-of-concept 
> for using this widget to connect to libvirt VMs. Most of our progress is 
> at https://invent.kde.org/arraybolt/qml-vnc, which is a simple app that 
> wraps the VNC widget and allows it to be tested.
> 
> As the CMake code was mostly taken from KRDC (which doesn't have license 
> headers in its CMake code and therefore I believe defaults to 
> BSD-2-Clause), the GPL code of plasma-welcome's CMake files prohibited 
> inclusion of CMake code from there. I wanted to look at it in order to 
> see what packages and libraries I needed in order to get 
> localization-related features to be available in QML. I could just look 
> at the code from some other project for that (and may end up doing so), 
> but I thought this was something good to mention anyway.


Sounds like an exciting project!