[kde-doc-english] where are the (translated) license texts in KF5 ?

Luigi Toscano luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Thu Oct 15 20:24:18 UTC 2015


Thomas Eschenbacher ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have ported my application to KF5 and wonder where I can get the full
> license texts (e.g. for GPL2+). I had that in my help/about dialog under
> KDE4, but now KAboutLicense::text() only returns one single sentence
> with the "ShortName".
> 
> In the source of kaboutdata.cpp (kcoreaddons-5.14.0 / Gentoo Linux) I
> see that the code searches for a file "LICENSES/GPL_V2" in
> QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation (which is a list that contains
> "/usr/share") - but that does not work. I only have
> /usr/share/apps/LICENSES/GPL_V2 - but that one belongs to an old KDE4
> installation and is not found.
> 
> Is there some secret/special package that I need to install to get those
> license texts?
> 
> Or is that a known bug (or collateral damage) of the KDE4 -> KF5 porting?
Uhm, it seems it is a porting problem. Please file a bug against
frameworks-kcoreaddons.

> 
> And what about translations, are there translated versions?

Licenses were no translated even on kdelibs4.



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