Licensing Policy: Accepting Apache 2 for oss-fuzz related files

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM Carl Schwan <carl at carlschwan.eu> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2025, at 11:53 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > We are trying to move most of the oss-fuzz related files to our reops
> instead
> > of being in https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/
> >
> > This will allow us to not have to depend on other people to merge
> changes in
> > them which sometimes creates a bit of friction.
> >
> > The problem is that those files are licenses under Apache 2 which is not
> > mentioned in https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> >
> > I would like to propose that we add a point 18 to the policy that says
> >
> > 18. Files involved in the oss-fuzz tooling can be licensed under the
> Apache
> > License 2.0
>
> +1 sounds reasonable
>

I'll second this, makes sense.


>
> > Comments?
> >
> > Please see
> > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/karchive/-/merge_requests/125/diffs
> > for one of the various places we would use it.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >   Albert
>
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